On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, John Horne wrote:
> The problem seems to stem from the fact that the above is part of the
> ACL system, and that does not seem to take any notice of the bounce
> options. When a message is rejected by an ACL the default bounce message
> format is used.
No; when a message is rejected by an ACL, Exim does not generate the
bounce message. It refuses to accept the message from the remote sender.
It is therefore up to the sender to generate the bounce message.
> I guess that if an option like 'bounce_message_file' is in use it may
> include expansion variables which are not available if the bounce was
> caused by, for example, a RCPT ACL. I would have thought though that
> options relating to the bounce message size could still be enforced?
They could if Exim generated the bounce, but it doesn't. :-)
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