Just to let you know that the solution proposed below works. Basically the
problem was to get a short timeout on quota failures for messages from a
specific sender.
Thanks,
John Linn
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, j.linn wrote:
>
> > Exim 4-20
> >
> > As I read the EXIM 4 book, [pages 274-278], for the Retry Rule Pattern
> > with an error field type of "quota", the address that is available for
> > checking is the recipient address.
>
> Yes, it's the address whose delivery failed.
>
> > I would find it useful if this was the sender address OR that the field
> > would accept a condition where I could specifiy the string variable I
> > wanted to check against. I would need to know which ones were set at that
> > point.
>
> I never thought of the possibility of basing retry rule choices on
> anything other than the recipient address that had failed.
>
> Retry processing happens at the end of delivery. At that stage, Exim has
> a list of temporarily failed recipient addresses and the associated
> errors. So it's not like routing, where only one address is handled at a
> time. Variables like $domain_data that are set while routing one address
> are not available.
>
> I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve, but I suspect it just
> doesn't fit well with the way Exim handles this.
>
> However, since the address is matched using the standard "address list"
> matching rules, which means that it is expanded before use, you could
> make use of $sender_address. At least, I think something like
>
> "${if eq{$sender_address}{xxx}{*@*}{no@no}}" quota ...
>
> might work (where "no@no" is a dummy that will never match anything).
>
>
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