Re: [Exim] How to deal with 10 fold increase in mail traffic

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Author: Anand Buddhdev
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to deal with 10 fold increase in mail traffic
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:34:44PM -0000, Sujit Choudhury wrote:

> Alex,
> The problem is our MTA is a gateway. It handles the traffic for
> m25lib.ac.uk, psi.org.uk etc. It does not have local users. Depending
> on various rewrite rules, it just passes the mail to some other (less
> powerful) host.


Sujit,

Perhaps you should use the callout feature of exim to ensure that your
downstream hosts will actually accept the mail. If the downstream
refuses the mail, you can reject it at SMTP time and save yourself all
the trouble.

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Anand Buddhdev