Re: [exim-dev] Exim from mailnull by local "Auto-Submitted: …

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Autor: Tony Finch
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Temat: Re: [exim-dev] Exim from mailnull by local "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" bounces keep bouncing
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Tony Finch wrote:
>
> > I've always wondered why Exim freezes double bounces, rather than sending
> > them to postmaster (which is what Sendmail and Postfix do).
>
> Well, I was thinking of myself as postmaster, and I sure as heck didn't
> want them in my mailbox! And certainly not interrupting me.


Was this before or after the introduction of filtering?

> The freeze_tell option was invented for those postmasters who wanted to
> know the instant a message was frozen.


Though that's even more baffling because it specifically excludes double
bounces!

Most Exim postmasters completely ignore double bounces (cf. the default
configuration) which is less than ideal. However it would require some
extra work to deal with them reasonably automatically (we get over a
thousand each day).

Tony.
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