Re: [exim] Avoiding backscatter spam generation when forward…

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Autor: Todd Lyons
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Dla: Reid Priedhorsky
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Temat: Re: [exim] Avoiding backscatter spam generation when forwarding to external hosts
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Reid Priedhorsky <reid@???> wrote:
>
> I have a few e-mail aliases that forward to external hosts. Currently, if
> the external host rejects a message, Exim generates a bounce message and
> sends it to the original sender. This is bad because if the external host
> rejects the message as spam (a common case), then I'm a source of
> backscatter spam.
>
> Thus, if the sender is non-local and the e-mail has a non-local destination,
> I'd like to send the bounce to postmaster (me) instead.


Chapter 15 of the exim spec. Look for "errors_to".

However you will break legitimate bounces. As long as you understand
that, I guess it's your system, your rules.

Regards...         Todd


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