Re: [exim] fatal bounces / cut off time

Hello,

2008/3/12, Phil Pennock <exim-users@???>:
> On 2008-03-12 at 10:33 +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > So the example router could look like this?
>
>
> No, because it has two domains specifications.
>
> If you remove the first one, then yes.
>
>
> > My question is more general though. In situations when I get
> > connection timeouts, I would like mail to be bounced after the retry
> > period passes. And when it does, I'd like exim to bounce only
> > particular email without affecting other emails to the same domain. So
> > each email should be queued for 4 days before it gets bounced. And I
> > would like this to happen not only for yahoo but for other domains. I
> > know it creates some overhead but I can live with that. However, this
> > applies only to timeouts, not to 5.5.4 or the like errors.
>
>
> Exim's retry hints database is per-host or per-address, not per-message.
> Of course, that can change -- the developers welcome patches.
>
> Some people might consider your desired behaviour abusive, since if
> there are N mails queued up, the repeated attempts to deliver each mail
> every so often would result in N attempts per retry timeout, which can
> build up quite fast.
>
> If you have so few mails that this really isn't a concern (ie, you're in
> the situation I'm in these days with my Exim setup) then there's no real
> issue in noticing a build-up of mails in your queue and jumping through
> whichever hoops are mutually acceptable to you and the recipient
> domain's postmaster. In the middle ground between these two extremes,
> your proposal runs the risk of exceeding sensitive DoS thresholds which
> the biggest freemail providers have.

Right - thank you Phil. I do have about 6K emails to send per day so
yes it can build up quite fast. So I will probably give up on this
idea.

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Zbigniew Szalbot