On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Paul Walsh wrote:
> Exim attempts to deliver to hotmail but delivery fails due to account
> unavailable/mailbox full. Exim returns the message to Outlook (with <> in
> header)
> which promptly forwards it again....
Sigh. When will they ever learn? <fx: cue '60s song...>
> Here is what I had in the system filter:
> if $h_to contains "hotmail.com"
> then
> freeze "Hotmail destination frozen"
>
> endif
>
> This successfully managed to block all mail to hotmail (as well as an
> incoming mail which happened to be Cc'd to a hotmail address).
>
> I thought, perhaps, the message was immediately getting frozen each time
> auto-thaw kicked in, so this is what I have in the filter at the moment:
Correct diagnosis. You do need to test first_delivery for this kind of
thing.
> Any suggestions?
Alternative: in your filter, catch the messages going back to Outlook,
if that is possible, and get Exim do to something else with them?
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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