Bug#270129: exim4-config: Bounces generated from rewritten email addresses should go to original mailbox.

Andreas Metzler Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>, 270129@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:52:04 +0100


On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:05:21AM -0700, Keith Dunwoody wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.34-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> I am using /etc/email-addresses to make mail sent from my user keith 
> have a from address of kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca.  However, if a 
> bounce is generated trying to send an email, the bounce message is sent 
> to kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca, rather than going directly to my local
> mail file.  This creates a problem because sometimes I cannot send email 
> to my own email address, causing the bounces to get stuck.  I think 
> instead exim should send the bounce to my local mail file directly.
[...]

I disagree. I want my bounces in my usual inbox with al the other mail
and not in a different place, which I'd rarely check (if I'd check it at
all).
             cu andreas