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Integrity
10-22-2003, 12:48 AM
Hello again,

I have setup a catchall email and it works fine but I want to be able to FAIL certain email addresses. How do I do it?

In Cpanel I could setup a forwarder and type FAIL instead of an email address to forward it to.

I tried it with DA but it gives me an error. Is there something I'm missing here?
DirectAdmin Support
10-22-2003, 12:07 PM
Hello,

Create a forwarder and type:

:fail:

John
adrianbanks
11-20-2003, 05:48 PM
Is it possible to add a message to the fail? When I try it, it says that there is an error because there are spaces.

Adrian
DirectAdmin Support
11-21-2003, 12:14 AM
Hello,

Not at the momment. The form checking will only let you use the standard commands, without extra messages.

John
adrianbanks
11-21-2003, 04:03 AM
I set a :fail: on a specific address and then sent an email to that address to test it. The mail was not delivered, but it didn't bounce either. Is this the correct behaviour?

I thought that :fail: bounced the message. If not, how do I set the message to bounce?

Adrian
ProWebUK
11-21-2003, 07:00 AM
the :fail I think is your blackhole, emails go in, get ignored, dropped and never come out :D
adrianbanks
11-21-2003, 07:16 AM
If I set :fail: on another control panel it bounces. That is also the behaviour of Exim, so shouldn't it be the same for DA?

Adrian
ProWebUK
11-21-2003, 07:30 AM
hm.... If its exim, there seem to be lots of problems with it lately or maybe it's me, try upgrading your exim to the latest if you dont already have it :)

Chris
DirectAdmin Support
11-21-2003, 01:42 PM
Hello,

:fail: should bounce, :blackhole: should drop.

If it isn't bouncing, check the /var/log/exim/mainlog to see why.

John