Error 503 after configuring Exim to use Mailscanner on Debian Sid

[Nick Phillips]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:49:06PM +0200, Tóth Attila wrote:
> I'm using Debian Sid with the latest Mailscanner package and all other
> related packages:
> Exim-tls: 3.35-3
> Spamassassin: 2.31-2
> Mailscanner: 3.14.1-2
>
> After setting it up according to the instructions I've found in the
> package and also on the web page, the MTA stopped delivering mails.
> I tried to have a closer look on the problem, so I tried to send a mail
> using telnet from another host.
>
> I got the following results:
> (I substituted realworld names an IPs)
>
> user at tryhost:~/$ telnet myhost.hu 25
> Trying 193.225.82.157...
> Connected to myhost.hu.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 dc.sote.hu ESMTP Exim 3.35 #1 Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:07:34 +0200
> helo tryhost.hu
> 250 myhost.hu Hello tryhost.hu [correct IP address]
> mail from:user at tryhost.hu
> 250 <user at tryhost.hu> is syntactically correct
> rcpt to:user at myhost.hu
> 451 <user at myhost.hu> All deliveries are deferred
> data
> 503 Valid RCPT TO <recipient> must precede DATA
> quit
> 221 myhost.hu closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> So it seems to me, that the MTA couldn't interpret the RCPT command
> properly. I'm not suprised, that no mails were delivered.
>
> Could it be the problem that I use sender and receiver verification?


Yes, I need to add a little to the documentation on this. Basically, you
need to set verify = false for the defer_director and defer_router.


Cheers,


Nick

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