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 -- ## List details at https://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/
