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jeffrey.starin at gmail

Mar 7, 2012, 9:18 AM

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Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible? [In reply to]

thank you! Perfecto!

On 3/7/2012 12:05 PM, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 11:03 -0500, Jeffrey Starin wrote:
>> Can Exim be configured to react to log files?
> Directly? Not that I am aware of.
>
>> There is talk out there in the internet about other MTAs like Port25
>> which has the ability to react in real time to log files such that if a
>> log entry contains a Yahoo 421 message, either switch IPs or otherwise
>> shut down the queue.
>>
>> This sounds like a great idea and I'm wondering if Exim has the muscle
>> to do this?
> You can do this with retry rules like the following example:
>
> yahoo.com rcpt_421 F,24h,6h
>
> That is - for all messages for recipients in the yahoo.com domain which
> receive a 421 response to a RCPT command, park them in the queue for 24
> hours and only try every 6 hours.
>
> I highly recommend familiarising yourself with the retry configuration:
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch32.html
>
> It will very likely do exactly what you need without any external
> "assistance".
>
> Graeme
>
>

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Subject	User	Time
reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	jeffrey.starin at gmail	Mar 6, 2012, 8:03 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	warren at decoy	Mar 6, 2012, 9:26 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	jeffrey.starin at gmail	Mar 6, 2012, 2:15 PM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	warren at decoy	Mar 7, 2012, 12:09 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	exim at u61	Mar 7, 2012, 5:31 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	warren at decoy	Mar 7, 2012, 5:41 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	iane at sussex	Mar 12, 2012, 5:41 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	jeffrey.starin at gmail	Mar 7, 2012, 5:39 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	warren at decoy	Mar 7, 2012, 7:27 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	jeffrey.starin at gmail	Mar 7, 2012, 7:48 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	warren at decoy	Mar 7, 2012, 10:16 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	iane at sussex	Mar 12, 2012, 6:03 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	graeme at graemef	Mar 7, 2012, 9:05 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	jeffrey.starin at gmail	Mar 7, 2012, 9:18 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	jeffrey.starin at gmail	Mar 7, 2012, 10:01 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	jeffrey.starin at gmail	Mar 7, 2012, 10:08 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	warren at decoy	Mar 7, 2012, 10:12 AM
Re: reactive filtering to log files with exim possible?	iane at sussex	Mar 12, 2012, 5:33 AM

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