--- On Tue, 15/9/09, Heiko Schlittermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Heiko Schlittermann <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [exim] A Tight Exim Config > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 15 September, 2009, 10:11 AM > Hello Jon, > Jon Hardcastle <[email protected]> > (Di 15 Sep 2009 10:27:43 CEST): > > > > Thank you for your reply to my email. When i say > arrived I mean delivered. It is *all* about making sure with > as much certainty as possible that the message has been > delivered. > > > > Exim is reliable. It delivers the message to the next hop > or it returns > the message. If the delivery fails temporarly, it retries > (based on > configurable rules). If your application uses a proper > return address > (envelope-from), exim will return the message on delivery > errors and it > is up to you to parse the returned message (bounce). There > is no need to > parse any log file. > > If the return address is an local address on the exim host, > you have > several options to receive the bounces: delivery into an > mbox file, > delivery via a command pipe into your application, or > delivery via LMTP > into your application (LMTP via a local socket or via > network). > > > How do the 'captains of industry' do this? If i turn > the retry details in exim right down and manage that myself > will that work? Alternatively does anyone parse the log to > find the status of their message? > > > > I'm not sure why you don't want to rely on exim's retry > rules. They're > „industry proven“. But of course, you could strip them > down to get > bounces immediatly if exim faces a temporary problem. > > Alternativly you could inspect the message spool to get > information about > *pending* messages: „expick …“ will help you. > > Best regards from Dresden/Germany > Viele Grüße aus Dresden > Heiko Schlittermann > -- > So is that how it is then? you have to check the bounce back? I was hoping that exim could tell my code while the smtp connection was up? What is the standard way of doing this programatically? ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: [email protected] 'Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.' ----------------------- -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
