Re: [Exim] Temporary defer on callouts

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Author: David Woodhouse
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To: Bill Moseley
CC: Exim users list
Subject: Re: [Exim] Temporary defer on callouts
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 08:02 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:20:27PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > Refusing to accept bounces to mailing lists, for example, does make a
> > lot of sense. Likewise for old email addresses which are forwarded to
> > current addresses only for backward-compatibility.
>
> That's a tough one. It's nice for mail list software to automatically
> deal with bouncing subscribers.


Lists don't generally send mail with the actual list submission address
in the SMTP reverse-path. That would just be crazy.

This list, for example, is sending its messages out with reverse-path
exim-users-admin@???. Of course it accepts bounces to _that_
address, just not to exim-users@??? ...

    mail from:<>
    250 OK
    rcpt to:<exim-users-admin@???>
    250 Accepted
    rcpt to:<exim-users@???>
    550 Unknown user, or sender invalid for this user


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