:fail: email, messages stuck in queue

It's my understanding that if we use :fail: as the default address for a domain, then junk to that domain will be blocked from even comming into the server.

It's worked like this for years.

So if domain xxyz.com used :fail: no Such User Here

Why do I have a bunch of undeliverable emails in my queue that say:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

someone@xxyz.com
No Such User Here

I am using a standard Exim configuration, plus I've added "Mail Manage" and "Mail Queues" from ConfigServer

Any suggestions?

 

Follow up!

This appears to have been something in cPanel 11.x

I changed from Current to Release, and this completely changed the exim.conf file.

Now verify = recipient is back in the exim.conf file, and when I send an email to a failed address, from my yahoo account, the yahoo daemon responds with the fail, instead of it being generated on my server.

I hope this helps someone later.

 

After back-reving cPanel versions, other problems continued. These were caused by SpamAssassin 3.2

See this thread:
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=65838

Once resolving all SpamAssassin problems, I was able to return again to cPanel 11.x (current) without any trouble.

 

I seem to have spoke too soon...

I am now back to having all the :fail: emails being generated and put into the queue again, instead of being generated during the SMTP conversation.

 

Nick-

Actually those have been changed since my last message. I've opened a ticket, and Russel is taking a look at it currently. He seems to ahve the original problem fixed, but is now working on a SpamAssassin issue that popped up.

If you are curious, it's ticket # 191425

Thanks!