Re: [Exim] Ignoring bounce errors

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Paul Makepeace
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Ignoring bounce errors
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> I have an autoreply transport that has that includes the original message
> that caused the bounce:
>
> alias_bounce:
> driver = autoreply
> return_message
> subject = "Unable to deliver to ${local_part}@${domain}"
> headers = "Mime-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary=\"${perl
> {mime_boundary}}\""
> text = ${perl{mime_bounce}}
>
> (autoreply.c has been minisculey hacked to enable this.)


To enable what, exactly?

> The problem I'm seeing is that non-ASCII characters in those messages are
> causing errors like (taken from eximstats):


The reason for checking for printing characters is to ensure that the
format of the header lines conforms to RFC 822. It also seemed sensible
to me that the text of the message should conform in this case.

> Is there any way of having exim ignore these errors?


You can set print_topbitchars, but that is a global switch.

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