From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 12:37:15 EDT
Victor Duchovni:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > > > Let's suppose I have a message in my message queue that
> > > > I'm sure it wont
> > > > be delivered. I know I can erase the message using 'postsuper
> > > > -d queueid'.
> > > > But I'd like to know if there's a way of forcing the message
> > > > to be bounced
> > > > instead of simply erased.
> >
> > The mail WILL NOT be simply erased. It will be returned to the
> > sender.
>
> I think he wants to get the bounce to take place immediately... If this is
> for a single special message, my header_checks trick works. If this is for
> a lot of mail to an undeliverable destination, one can just route the
> destination to the "error:Destination unreachable" mailer.
Sure, creative workarounds exist.
A proper solution is to add a field to the queue file that says
when mail expires. Such a field is created when the queue file is
created. It can be given different values for different categories
of email, and it can be updated on the fly.
Wietse
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