[exim] Re: Excessive "bad recipient" messages in syslog

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Autor: Andrew C Aitchison
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To: Jim Fenton via Exim-users
Betreff: [exim] Re: Excessive "bad recipient" messages in syslog
On Sun, 28 May 2023, Jim Fenton via Exim-users wrote:


> I can easily change the configuration to make this happen silently,
> but I would like some visibility that this is happening, for
> example, in my daily logwatch output. Has anyone devised a way to
> cut down on the number of messages without eliminating them
> entirely?


exim supports rate-limiting - allowing something to happen,
but not more than n actions in time peroid t (plus extra knobs).

I image you could rate-limit a logging action and have a separate
action to actually block the message that is not rate-limited.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew@???


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