Jeremy Harris wrote: > <snip> > In addition to the solution to your question, why can't you reject > such rather than discarding them? > > -Jeremy > > My problem with rejecting them, is that the 'source mail servers' are following the 'rules' for processing rejected e-mail, and will retry again later. This wouldn't be a problem if it was just 10 or 20k mails, but were actually talking about more than 100k bounce messages already. For me it's no longer a question to get it fixed, it has become a quest to keep the servers live and the load low, usually they process about 2 to 5k messages per day, with peaks to 10k, but no more...
We already tried rejecting all messages to the target domains for some time, works perfectly, however, due to the retry settings on the other side (we rejected with 'temporary local problem'), we eventually ended up with about 300 to 400 open tcp connections with other mailservers trying to dump the bounces to our clients, which is quite a lot, if you're used to 10 to 20 connections. As you notice, the servers in question aren't normally doing very much ;). -- ## 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/
