Re: [EXIM] Blackholing a domain

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Author: James Dehnert
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Blackholing a domain
Ken Bailey wrote:

> James Dehnert wrote ...
> >
> >
> > I am the keeper of a domain that we no longer want to get e-mail for. In
> >fact, I want to just black hole all the e-mail coming in for this domain ( we
> >have given tons of notice, and I'm tired of cleaning out 100's of messages with
> >eximon )
>
> Rather than blackhole it, why not use an autoreply which returns the
> senders message, pointing out the error of their ways? That way no
> mail is lost, only the miscreant sender is inconvenienced, and (most
> importantly :) you no longer need to manually intervene.
>
> Silently blackholing will give you more work explaining why mail that
> senders thought was delivered never reached its destination.
>
> Ken


I attempted to write the autoreply lines, but I was not successful. I'm
afraid I'm spending too much time in middle management to work very long on any
real work done.

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