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Author: Graeme Fowler
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To: exim-users
New-Topics: Re: [exim] Discard bounce notification emails before they are sent - some update
Subject: Re: [exim] Discard bounce notification emails before they are sent
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 14:25 +0200, Mikhail Lischuk wrote:
> for example, I have to
> accept messages to aliases, which resolve to 3-5 internal mailboxes, and
> if one of them is over quota Exim will generate bounce. Should I reject
> the message just because of one undeliverable recipient?


No, but you should tune your retry rules to deal with over-quota
mailboxes. Quota problems are, in my experience, usually dealt with by a
human being in a reasonable time; you can probably afford to keep a
given message on the queue for (say) 30 days before timing out and
generating an NDR.

Graeme