Author: Mikhail Lischuk Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Discard bounce notification emails before they are sent
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:48:40 +0000, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> 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
Now that's an interesting
approach. I'll give it a try.
And is there a way to tune my rules in
such way, that if message, queued for ouer-quota retry, was not
delivered in 7 days - then it should die, without generating any
bounces? 99% of messages that end up in my server in such retry queues
are obsolete in 3-5 days (some touristic mailing lists and so on) - I
mean, if message cannot be delivered in 7 days nobody is going to miss
it anyways and it may be purged. But I was not able to find a way to
kill message without NDR - the only way was to send them to postmaster
instead of bouncing, but I don't need those 200-300 bounces per day in
my mailbox 8)
