On 21-Jul-98 at 13:31:39 Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> I'm converting a box from sendmail to exim, and I'd like (temporarilly) to
> have all the failed deliveries to be defered instead, so I have to chance
> to repair the broken aliases without generating bounces.
> I've seen the directives 'hold_domains{_except}', but it doesn't seem to
> do what I want, since the existing aliases must be tried first.
>
We do this (for a different reason). Look at ':defer:' in the aliasfile
director section in the manual (p125 in the Exim 1.90 manual). We perform a
little bit of fiddling with the envelope rewriting so that messages are
deferred still with the domain name of 'plymouth.ac.uk' (in our case). When
they are 'released' they re-enter the system and pick up their correct
envelope-to address. It's helped us out enormously :-)
John.
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