I provide computer services for a small business whose site is hosted using cpanel. I sometimes assist our Webmaster with setting up email accounts, etc. For several years we have configured the local mailbox "dumpster" as our catchall account, and it has worked fine, receiving all our misaddressed mail.
About 2 months ago, the dumpster account mysteriously stopped working. Mail addressed explicitly to that account goes through, but mail sent to nonexistent addresses bounces. The bounce process consists of an initial warning message ("delivery has been delayed") which is sent about 1 1/2 hours after the original message. Another "delivery delayed" message is sent about a day later, and a final "delivery failed" message a day after that.
This began to occur about the same time as some other behavior changes of the mail server. I am wondering if an update to cpanel might have invilved some Exim configuration changes which make it incompatible with the use of the catchall account. (I checked the obvious configuration options for the catchall account itself, everything is set correctly there).
(If it might be a clue, the other behavior change is as follows. If we send outgoing email via our SMTP server, and the email is addressed to a misspelled user name within our domain, that mail is now rejected by the SMTP server. Our client reports it as unsent. This never used to happen.)
I am unfamiliar with Exim configuration. If anybody has any knowledge of this problem, please help. Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks,
-Steve
About 2 months ago, the dumpster account mysteriously stopped working. Mail addressed explicitly to that account goes through, but mail sent to nonexistent addresses bounces. The bounce process consists of an initial warning message ("delivery has been delayed") which is sent about 1 1/2 hours after the original message. Another "delivery delayed" message is sent about a day later, and a final "delivery failed" message a day after that.
This began to occur about the same time as some other behavior changes of the mail server. I am wondering if an update to cpanel might have invilved some Exim configuration changes which make it incompatible with the use of the catchall account. (I checked the obvious configuration options for the catchall account itself, everything is set correctly there).
(If it might be a clue, the other behavior change is as follows. If we send outgoing email via our SMTP server, and the email is addressed to a misspelled user name within our domain, that mail is now rejected by the SMTP server. Our client reports it as unsent. This never used to happen.)
I am unfamiliar with Exim configuration. If anybody has any knowledge of this problem, please help. Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks,
-Steve