On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Scenario:
>
> - Spammer sends mail to a system running exom 2.02, to some valid users
> and some invalid ones.
>
> - The mail is accepted and the spam delivered to the valid users.
>
> - Exim generates a bounce message to indicate the invalid users, but the
> bounce is refused (for what appears to be a variety of reasons).
Sadly, very common. Sigh.
> Any suggestions on how, short of consulting the RBL, how to reduce the
> amount of times this happens? Especially some way to just drop the
> refused return message rather than leaving it frozen in the queue?
Set ignore_errmsg_errors to drop them immediately, or set ignore_errmsg_
errors_after to specify a (short) time to keep them for. I use 12h so
that I notice them, but they go away relatively quickly.
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