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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-12-07 keith <kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:52:04PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
 
> > I disagree. I want my bounces in my usual inbox with all the other mail
> > and not in a different place, which I'd rarely check (if I'd check it at
> > all).

> The problem I see with the current setup, is that under certain 
> situations the bounces will be undeliverable,

Yes, understood that. I just think that "certain situations" are quite
rare.

> leaving the user thinking 
> that the message has been delivered, when in fact it has not.  Perhaps 
> the bounce message could be sent to usual inbox, but if that fails, it 
> would be sent to the local mailbox?

I think that is definitely impossible.

You might get your original wish by disabling the original rewriting
rules and using rewrite in the transport instead.

However I don't intend to change this in the debian package.
                 cu andreas
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