RE: [Exim] delayed 24 hours warning message

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Author: Mike Bethune
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To: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [Exim] delayed 24 hours warning message
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 9:42 AM
>> one of my users has a full mailbox, so his incoming mails are all sitting

in
>> the queue.
>> one mail has now been in there 24 hours, so exim sent a warning message

to
>> the sender,
>> but reason in the warning message states:
>>      Delay reason: Retry time not yet reached
>> how would i get the reason to state the actual problem, that his mailbox

is
>> full?
>
>That is an unfortunate infelicity. I have a vague feeling that I'd
>stopped it sending the warning message after this kind of defer - so
>that it would only send the warning after it had really tried to
>deliver. Hmm. There doesn't seem to be anything in the code. Maybe my
>memory is wrong. Oh, wait a minute. The code looks as though it should
>just omit the reason for a deferment. But clearly it hasn't in your
>case. (And that isn't helpful either!)
>
>I'll check this out, but it's not something I'm likely to rush into
>changing for Exim 3 at this stage, at least not unless there's another
>reason to put out another Exim 3 release.


how about a way to bounce the mail instead of queueing it then, or better
yet reject it after the rcpt with a 550 message or something