How to disable bounces in exim?

[GordonH]

I have searched around and can't see how to do this.

We get lots of spamcop complaints for "unsolicited bounces" which can lead to blacklisting so I need to disable bounces from all our servers.

Has anyone managed to do this relibaky without cpanel overwriting it?

 

[AndyReed]

We get lots of spamcop complaints for "unsolicited bounces" which can lead to blacklisting so I need to disable bounces from all our servers.

Has anyone managed to do this relibaky without cpanel overwriting it?

To disable delayed bounce back messages in exim, go to: http://www.farhad.ca/2006/07/27/how-to-disable-delayed-bounce-back-messages-in-exim/

 

[GordonH]

Thanks for that
It seems like a possible solution as it would be possible to automate adding ti to all the servers when cpanel overwrites the config files (I had to do that for blacklisting as well....)

 

[erinspice]

To disable delayed bounce back messages in exim, go to: http://www.farhad.ca/2006/07/27/how-to-disable-delayed-bounce-back-messages-in-exim/

Hi, thanks for the link. I implemented this fix and lost my email functionality altogether. How can I delete the bounce notifications while also allowing through regular mail?

 

[GordonH]

Hi, thanks for the link. I implemented this fix and lost my email functionality altogether. How can I delete the bounce notifications while also allowing through regular mail?

I don't know.
It did the same for me so I never implemented it.

This is domething that should be selectable in the Exim editor like "use callouts".

 

[KyleG]

I also need a fix to this. My server is sending out ALOT of spam emails.

 

[randomuser]

For those of you that tried this from the URL listed above and it didn't work, did you try replacing all instances of “” with "" ? Haven't tried it myself, but if someone tries that and reports success, I may have to consider it.

For example, the tut says:

if $sender_address is “”

but I think that should probably be:

if $sender_address is ""

 

[mickalo]

For those of you that tried this from the URL listed above and it didn't work, did you try replacing all instances of “” with "" ? Haven't tried it myself, but if someone tries that and reports success, I may have to consider it.

For example, the tut says:

if $sender_address is “”

but I think that should probably be:

if $sender_address is ""

yes, if you replace those with the double quotes " " it works fine.

Mickalo

 

[AndyReed]

Hi, thanks for the link. I implemented this fix and lost my email functionality altogether. How can I delete the bounce notifications while also allowing through regular mail?

I tweaked that entry on all of our clients' servers:

if $sender_address is ""
        then
if ${lookup{${extract{2}{@}{$recipients}}}lsearch{/etc/localdomains}{yes}{no}} is "no"
        then
        noerror fail text "Delayed bounce message ignored"
        seen finish
    endif
endif

Save and then run these commands:
/scripts/restartsrv exim
/scripts/restartsrv spamd

 

[randomuser]

Just wanted to point out that restarting exim/spamd/anything else is not necessary.

 

[erinspice]

Also, (on my box at least) restarting exim restarts spamd, so you're essentially restarting spamd twice there.

But yes, thanks for this fix! It works!