On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have got some problems with users on my server using email-to-SMS gateways.
> They put .procmailrc like this one:
>
> ------
> SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
> :0c
> * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | $HOME/email2sms | $SENDMAIL -t
> ------
>
> When the SMS gateway of someone's operator dies, the messages are bounced back
> and processed again by procmail. The error message is sent to SMS gateway,
> which bounces it again...
>
> So after some time I have thousands of messages in my spool. How can
> I prevent this behavior with Exim configuration options?
>
> Marcin
>
>
You could write a procmail rule which filters the bounces and drop them in
a mailbox (or send them to /dev/null). Of course, you need to place this
rule _before_ the rule which sends the SMS.
Teun
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