Philip Hazel writes ("Re: [EXIM] Lost mail due to `message retry timeout exceeded'"):
> That is true of any message of course, not just bounces. All this stuff
> was added to Exim in the early days for use on systems where the
> sysadmins wanted things to run without much human attention, and without
> messages piling up for longer than the retry timeout, whatever happened.
> (One common case: small messages get through, large ones don't. If you
> don't have a rule like this, the large ones never get bounced.)
Indeed.
> You can stop Exim doing this, of course, by adding a fake retry rule
> that never matches any domain (stick it after the "*" rule) but which
> has a very long timeout.
I shall do that. Will this definitely prevent Exim from throwing away
broken messages when I thaw them ?
> Many sysadmins on busy systems aren't interested at all in bounces that
> fail, they just chuck them away. Others are prepared to use auto-thaw
> for a few times, but want the messages to get slung after that.
Indeed. However, I think I should be able to run it in a way that
doesn't throw away mail ...
Ian.
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