Re: [exim] UNSEEN option

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dean Brooks
CC: Odhiambo Washington, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] UNSEEN option
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Dean Brooks wrote:

> > Does the "errors_to /dev/null" take care of situations like where the
> > mailbox of user1@??? is full?
>
> Exactly. If you don't redirect the errors in that manner to go somewhere
> else, those kinds of errors would go back to the original sender. By
> setting errors_to, it causes the forwarding to be completely invisible
> to the original sender.


However, errors_to should be set to an email address, not /dev/null,
because it affects the return path of the forwarded message.

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