On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> ignore_errmsg_errors
>
> Philip, why is it false by default? I think that every sensible
> postmaster with more than ten users enables this ASAP.
I don't. I enable ignore_errmsg_errors_after, and I only did so
relatively recently. (There are 5,000 or so users on this system.)
It is not the default
(a) For historical compatibility.
(b) So that postmasters *know* if they are throwing away messages. I
think that a feature that throws away any messages whatsoever should not
happen without the postmaster explicitly enabling it.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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