Re: [Exim] Saving rejected mail

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Dave C. wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Greg Ward wrote:
> >
> > > Right. I think I have figured out a nicer way to do this; it involves
> > > turning "deny" ACL statements into "warn", and then later checking for
> > > the header added by the warning.
>
> Indeed. We use this approach in some of our antispam recipes too.
>
> > Or you can even do this in a DATA ACL, checking for the same conditions.
>
> Yes. There's a minority of broken mailers, however, which treat a 5xx
> at DATA time as a temporary error, so you'll want to have some
> strategy (if only to keep an eye on the log and add the offenders to a
> blacklist) to break such standoffs.

Sigh.. SMTP was just not designed for todays internet.