Re: [exim] remote delivery fail bounce turning off

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Author: Apache
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To: 'Exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: Re: [exim] remote delivery fail bounce turning off
> rex at yucard dot ru wrote:
>> how to completely turn off this kind of bounce msgs????
>
> The purpose of a bounce message is inform the sender that there has been
> an error so that they may change their behavior and not continue to send
> messages that will create the same error over and over.
>
> Perhaps instead of turning off bounce messages, you should read them or
> write a program to read them that will remove addresses that don't work
> from your list of addresses. There are a number of methods available to
> change the sending address to encode the recipient in it so you can tell
> exactly which address are rejected.
>
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I'm curious about this same subject and the way that Exim deals with it.
Is Exim accepting and then delivering back a message to whom it believes
to be the original sender or denying the message before receiving it.
There are people out there that spoof the 'sender' address in order to
have their spam forwarded to unsuspecting recipients.
Any info on the way Exim handles these items and, as the original poster
asked, is there a way to disable this.

thanks,
Chas.