Fred Viles wrote:
>On 26 Jan 2005 at 11:06, Toralf Lund wrote about
> "[exim] Returning mail via filter/ho":
>
>| 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.
>
>IMHO: Don't do this, it's abusive. Instead, use an RCPT ACL clause
>to reject such messages at SMTP time, and give your new address in
>the 55x message. For a really simple example:
>
> # Reject Fred's hostmaster alias, it's getting mostly Swen virii.
>
> deny local_parts = hostmaster
> message = hostmaster account cancelled due to Swen, resend to fv
>
>
[ and so on]
Two problems with that:
1. I'm not sure I want to fully deny the messages; I also save a copy
in a special mailbox for the time being.
2. Principally speaking, I'm doing this as a normal (Exim) e-mail
user, not as an administrator. Now, I happen to know the root
password and have access to the Exim config, as you probably have
guessed by now, but I'm still not sure it's right to mess up the
global config with all sorts of special cases for my personal needs.
- Toralf
