On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, 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.
>
> Local addresses? Remote addresses? What kind of failures? If a remote
> host says "550 User Unknown" (for example) do you want to catch those?
I'm only interested in catching local 'user unknown' addresses.
The underlying problem is that the previous sendmail configuration allowed
to deliver mail to joe@??? provided that 'joe' is a local user and
'domain.com' is one of the local handled domain. Exim is set up not to use
this behavior since it was very confusive in the long run and created many
address conflicts.
> You may be able to do something by setting errors_to on the aliasfile
> director to get all the error messages sent to you. This isn't quite the
> same thing, of course.
I'll end up doing this if I can't find a better solution, but I'd much
prefer something like adding a: '*@*: :defer:' alias to catch the errors
somewhere...
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