On 10-May-01 at 11:19:34 Nicholas Blackaby wrote:
> To focus on an example, I am setting up a vacation-style function
> for a mail-server on which there are no local users. I have based the
> relevant parts of my exim configuration file on the sample
> configuration C019. This sample file describes a director called
> "vacation" which includes the lines: "unseen" and "errors_to =
> POSTMASTER". The approach described in C019 for providing a
> vacation-style function appears to work very well but I find that the
> return_path is still set to POSTMASTER (rather than the original
> envelope-from address) for subsequent directors (in particular, the
> one that delivers the message to the users IMAP mailbox). As a
> result, delivery failure (or warning) messages for these subsequent
> directors would end up being sent to an inappropriate return_path
> (namely POSTMASTER, rather than the original sender).
>
Hmm, interesting. Well C019 is something we still use, although slightly
modified. In fact we do not use the 'errors_to' option for vacation
processing any more; it is only used in one or two special cases relating to
local mailing lists. As such we have not, of course, seen this sort of
problem.
Regards,
John.
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