Bernard,
Clearly it would be best to block the spam, but this is inevitably not
possible in _every_ case.
Therefore what I am looking for is an option, or a retry rule perhaps,
that would make outgoing bounce messages for these spam not have their
delivery treated the same as normal outgoing messages.
To clarify, the bounce message that is being sent out is of the form "no
such user here", and is not being delivered because the return address
on the spam is invalid. I'm just trying to prevent having messages in
the spool for unnecessarily long periods.
I would prefer for these bounces to only have their delivery attempted
for a day at most, rather than the default week that the rest of my
outgoing messages are tried for.
My initial reaction was to set a retry rule of the form "<>@* * F,1d,2h"
but that isn't a solution it would seem.
Thanks,
Ollie
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Stern
Sent: Wed 2/21/2001 13:47
To: exim-users@???
Cc:
Subject: RE: [Exim] retry rules for bounce messages
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:25:10 -0000 O.Cook@???
wrote:
> Is it possible to make a retry rule for bounce messages, such
that they
> don't stay on the queue for too long? My main concern is
bounce messages
> from incoming spam, that will never get delivered back to the
fake
> sender address.
> Thanks,
> Ollie
I'd suggest you best don't accept such mail at all, reject it
at RCPT TO. Chapters 45 and 46 of the exim spec document. Or
is there something that I did not understand in you message?
Regards,
Bernard Stern, SWITCH
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