Re: [exim] Exim Development

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim Development


Ted Cooper wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures
>> their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver
>> the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't
>> intent to retry on 5xy errors but I want the option of storing the email
>> for either inspection and troubleshooting or in the xase that the
>> customer fixes their server and wants the email.
>>
>
> The solution I posted does everything you want without changing code or
> breaking specs.
>
> Because the bounce occurs on your local servers, you have full control
> over what ends up in the bounce message and as such, the original
> message can be recreated ready to be re-inserted into the delivery process.
>
> Bounces never make it back to the sender when they should not have, you
> get control over anything a mis-configured server does and near instant
> notification of errors. And you get to be a hero not only because you
> delivered all their messages after they screwed up, but because you
> didn't have to break anything to do it.
>
>


It's hardly a solution in that it doesn't do what I want. I want to be
able to look at the reason for the 550 rejection. So if it's "unknown
user" it gets treated differently from "relaying denied". If I had that
I could make a choice to refusing an email or accepting it and storing it.