Re: [EXIM] Preventing mail spool from filling up

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Nick O'Brien
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Preventing mail spool from filling up
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Nick O'Brien wrote:

> Back to the main cause of our mail spool filling - users filling up the
> mail spool becouse they have misconfigured their .forward files. Is there
> any way that Exim can spot this and prevent this or do I just have to
> deal with these situations as they arise?


How do they do this? Is is something like a filter file that always
sends out a new message to themselves? Or maybe it pipes to a script
that sends them another message? Detecting all these possibilities seems
like hard to impossible to me.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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