Ian Jackson <ijackson@???> wrote:
>I have to agree very strongly with Piete on this one. A default that
>simply blackholes mail for certain error conditions is awful ! The
>one thing that people really definitely want from an MTA is for it not
>to frivolously throw away messages. If you persist you'll give Exim a
>start at a bad reputation, I think.
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>Perhaps the most general solution would be to have an option on the
>appropriate director (or a general option) to allow one to set the
>return path of a message as it goes through the director, and having
>expansion variables for the original sender and the real user in this
>context. (I haven't delved into the manual deeply enough to know
>whether this option or these expansion variables already exist.)
Maybe a better more generic solution would be an option on the appropriate
director (or router) such that if its transport fails it would act as if
the director had never matched in the first place. That way an almost
identical director further down could be used to attempt to deliver to
the user using a different method, you could even attempt 3 or 4 different
transports in this way before it eventually failed.
--
Brian http://www.wonderland.org/~eternal/
