Re: [exim] Help Required - Exim 3.36 outgoing email with lar…

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Autor: Adrian Phillips
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] Help Required - Exim 3.36 outgoing email with large# NDR's looping
>>>>> "Julian" == Ebiz Analysis <info@???> writes:

    Julian> One of my customers has accidentally sent an email cc'd to
    Julian> every entry in their Outlook Address Book.


    Julian> The list of addresses contained a high proportion of
    Julian> invalid email addresses.


    Julian> The MTA now appears to be retrying to send this email to
    Julian> the entire address list once every ~10 mins.


Why the MTA - exim will only retry those addresses it failed to send
to, not all the addresses it succeeded in sending.

    Julian> It has been doing this incessantly for the past 10 days.


    Julian> This has resulted in the recipients with valid email
    Julian> addresses receiving the mail hundreds of times.  The
    Julian> originating mailbox has been flooded with thousands of
    Julian> NDR's.


This sounds more like an Outlook problem than an exim problem. If it
was just exim the message could easily be deleted from the queue.

Sincerely,

Adrian

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