Russell Wilton schrieb: > I am running RedHat Linux and Exim 4.52 on a box in my DMZ. It acts as > a spam/virus scanner and smart host relay for an Exchange box inside my > firewall. The Exchange users insist that their 'Out-of-Office' > autoreply messages need to be sent to external addresses as well as > internal. We haven't found a way to prevent Exchange from sending > 'Out-of-Office' messages in reply to spam, so the smart host gets a lot > of Autoreplys addressed to invalid addresses. When it can't deliver > them it sends a bounce message back to the Exchange users, so for every > spam they also get a non-delivery notice for the 'Out-of-Office' message. > > These 'Out-of-Office' messages are easily identifiable by their subject > line, and I would like to treat them similar to the way bounce messages > are treated: try to deliver them for a short period of time, and if they > are non-deliverable, just delete them. I know from experience that Exim > is incredibly flexible, but I haven't been able to figure out how to > make it do this. Any thoughts or pointers would be much appreciated. > Thanks.
Just don't allow messages from senders that don't accept bounces into your system in the first place. Sender verification with callouts is your friend here. HTH, Patrick Eisenacher -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
