Re: [Exim] Bounce frozen messages to sender

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dr ZP Han
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Bounce frozen messages to sender
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Dr ZP Han wrote:

> Is there a way to bounce some frozen messages to sender
> rather than to freeze them? In case of an empty mailing
> list, exim (3.14) log says:
>
> <timestamp> <empty-list>@<local_domain>: maillist_aliases
> director deferred: error in alias file <alias_file_name>:
> no addresses generated
> ...
> *** Frozen
>
> We'd like to bounce those messages to let the list-owner
> know the problem.


I don't think this is possible. In any case, you don't really want to
bounce them to sender, do you? You want to send them to list-owner.
(They may of course, have other recipients which work fine.) Problem
noted.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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