On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:02:59 +0200 Christian Hertel wrote:
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> * Our bounce message could not be delivered to kjfbhjkhs@???
> because the yahoo mailserver rejects it in the smtp dialog again with an
> '554 User unknown' error. BUT - and that is the bad thing - our bounce
> message is not discarded but frozen by exim and held in our mailqueue.
> This happens thousand times so thousands of bounce mails were held in
> our mailqueue although they could never be delivered. Permanent means
> 'forget it, you could NEVER be deliver the mail'.
What about "ignore_bounce_errors_after = 0s" ?
I've it my config and I have no frozen non-delivery reports in spool
but
2004-08-20 07:02:53 1By1YD-0007ws-Ku xxx@???: error ignored
--Frank Elsner