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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] a large number of domains fronted by Exim are refusing bounces...
On 17 Jun 2005 at 15:18, Greg A. Woods wrote about
    "Re: [exim] a large number of domain":


| [ On Friday, June 17, 2005 at 09:39:43 (-0700), Fred Viles wrote: ]
| > Subject: Re: [exim] a large number of domains fronted by Exim are refusing bounces...
| >
| > On 17 Jun 2005 at 0:03, Greg A. Woods wrote about
| >     "[exim] a large number of domains fr":
| > 
| > |...
| > | We do not like having to manually handle double bounces,
| > 
| > "double bounces"?  Requiring manual handling?  Sounds like your smail 
| > setup is broken.
| 
| So Fred, what do you do with bounce messages in your queue that are not
| deliverable? ...


Nothing. Undeliverable bounce messages are purged from the queue
automatically in the default config. I set

ignore_bounce_errors_after = 0s

so they don't get queued at all here.

| But all that's neither here nor there -- the real issue is that hundreds
| of thousands of domains are now refusing _valid_ bounce messages.


Sounds like a mission.

- Fred