On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Max Caines wrote:
> I have some mailing lists hosted on our mail hub, and I frequently get
> large numbers of messages building up in the queue because one or two hosts
> on one of the lists can't be contacted for one reason or another. The retry
> rule applying to most deliveries has a maximum of 4 days, so that's how
> long these messages will hang around for. However, these are purely
> 'recreational' lists, and I'd like to drop their failing messages after
> about 24 hours to stop the queue getting excessive. I can't see any way to
> do this, as the retry rules are based entirely on the envelope addresses,
> and aren't affected by e.g. the sender address or Precedence: headers,
> which is about all there is to indicate that the message came from a list.
> Is there any way to achieve this?
I think a system filter would be the only way to do this at present.
I've made a note to think further about it at some time in the future.
Philip
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