----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
To: Alain Williams <addw@???>
Cc: Exim Users <exim-users@???>
Subject: Re: [exim] Return results of expansion to sender
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:09:52 +0000 (GMT)
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Alain Williams wrote:
>
>> * If I am delivering to all@ and the mailbox is full, we
>> want to discard the mail. How do I do this ? There is
>> not a ignore_status option as with the pipe transport.
>This will avoid stuff hanging around in the queue & tough
>on the student.
>
>You can set up retry rules that apply only to over-quota
>errors, but that applies only to over-quota on the local
>box. As I understand it, that won't help you. What I
>suppose you could do is to set up a router that recognizes
>these messages by sender or other means, and have it also
>use something like
>
> condition = ${if >{$message_age}{1200}}
>
>and let it do the blackholing. That assumes that if you
>haven't managed to deliver it to the current recipient
>after 1200 seconds, it should be discarded.
>
>> * The lecturers want to receive a delivery report -- one
>> email reply telling them who the mail was delivered to
>and who it was discarded (blackholed).
>
>The only way to get that is to write a script that pulls
>the information out of the log.
>
>--
>Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing
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