Re: [exim] [n@@b question] delete email if 550 error

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] [n@@b question] delete email if 550 error
On 13/02/07, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:29 -0800, mailing@??? wrote:
> > An outgoing SMTP connection goes like this:
> >
> > MAIL FROM: me@???
> > 250 OK
> > RCPT TO: foo@???
> > 250 Accepted
> > DATA
> > 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
> > *** obfuscate ***
> > .
> > 550 This message scored 998.8 spam points.
> > QUIT
> >
> >
> > If I _CAN_ detect the message attached to the 550 error, no need to do the
> > primary MX's job twice.
> > My problem is how to write the code. I'm not familiar with the language
> > used by Exim.
>
> you want to do a recipient callout, and make a decision based on the
> text of the callout response. this is not possible today, see
>
> http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=339
>
> IMHO your use case is much more convincing than the one given in the
> wishlist entry :-)


Actually he needs to do a recipient callout including the DATA phase -
something which SMTP doesn't cater for, so no amount of wishlisting is
going to help :-)

Peter


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