Re: [Exim] Under attack: discarding mail.

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Auteur: Jeffrey Goldberg
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Aan: Leonardo Boselli
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Under attack: discarding mail.
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Leonardo Boselli wrote:

> > Set
> > ignore_errmsg_errors_after
> > to some reasonably short time (a few hours). Or even set
> > ignore_errmsg_errors
> > to true.


> Actually, what is the effect of thgese options ?


ignore_errmsg_errors

    Type:    boolean
    Default: false


    If this option is set, failed addresses in error reports (that is,
    messages whose senders are '<>') are discarded (with a log entry). The
    default action is to freeze such messages for human attention.


ignore_errmsg_errors_after

  Type:    time
  Default: 0s


This option, if it is set to a non-zero time, acts as a delayed version of
ignore_errmsg_errors, which must be unset for this option to take effect.
If an error message is frozen because of delivery failure, then once the
given time has elapsed after the freezing took place, the message is
unfrozen at the next queue run. If delivery fails again, the error message
is discarded. This makes it possible to keep failed error messages around
for a shorter time than the normal maximum retry time.

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