On 2014-10-17, Jasen Betts <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-10-15, mark david mcCreary <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I would like give Exim a message to deliver to a remote host, and get 
>> notified if Exim received a 4xx - Temporary Delay.
>>
>> That is, if the messages is delivered successfully or bounces (5xx), 
>> that is fine.
>>
>> But I don't want messages sitting on the queue because there was a 
>> temporary error.  I want the spool queue to be empty at all times.
>
> The spool will still contain messages that are in transit, so it will
> be empty at most times. but not all times.
>
>> Does anybody have any ideas on how this might be possible with Exim ?
>
> given that you want the spool to be empty at all times, a notification
> alone is not enough, you also want to discard the original... sounds
> like a retry rule is what you want, (or more a "don't retry" rule I 
> guess)
>
> so, set the retry timeout to zero:
>
> http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-retry_configuration.html
>
> I've never tried tr write an empty retry rule, perhaps it can be
> written like this:
>
>  * * 
> or perhaps like this:
>
>  * * F,0s,0s

what I didn't not notice was that you had put critical information in the
subject line...  

cut-thru routing may help some.

-- 
umop apisdn


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