Toralf Lund wrote:
> As a spam reduction measure, I want to return all messages to certain
> variants of my e-mail address that I'm no longer using, with a message
> that should give an actual human reading the response an idea about
> how I may now be reached.
>
> What I have tried doing is
>
> noerror mail from $original_local_part@$original_domain subject
> "Failure notice: $h_subject" expand file .oldaddr.msg return message
>
> in my .forward file - along with the appropriate address test,
> obviously. This sort of works, but it will sometimes lead to frozen
> messages in the mail queue, presumably because the return address
> isn't valid.
>
> Is there any way I can avoid those frozen messages? An why do they
> appear in the first place? I mean, I the exim config has
>
> check_recipient:
> [ ... ]
> require verify = sender
>
> so I would normally expect everything that gets as far as the user
> forward file to have a valid return address.
Right. I overlooked something again. The "callout" option - not using
it, that is - obviously has something to do with this. Any opinion on
the callout checks, besides what's in the manual? Also, is there any way
I can do the check at the point where I do "return message" instead?
- Toralf
