Re: [Exim] fall back host

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Markham
CC: Exim User (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Exim] fall back host
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, David Markham wrote:

> I get a lot of frozen mail normally bounce messages to domains which don't
> exist and was wondering how I could make all frozen messages move to this
> fall back host.


Why bother? If the domains don't exist, the messages aren't ever going
to be delivered. Just set ignore_bounce_messages_after.

> Also I get a lot of standard bounce messages on these mail relayers and
> wanted these to be passed to the fallback host when the first attempt fails.


That should work for a "normal" failure - e.g. connection timed out.

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