Re: [Exim] panicking or rejecting ?

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Dla: Peter Rindfuss
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Peter Rindfuss wrote:

> My SMTP level address rewriting rule occasionally leads to entries in
> the panic log. So far, this happened with addresses containing a
> space or addresses with an unmatched double-quote, i.e. misspelled
> addresses, so there is nothing really wrong with that.
> But my idea of the panic log is that it should contain Exim's (4.20)
> reaction on things that I screwed up in the configuration, but not
> the results of faulty messages. The latter should be rejected and
> recorded in the reject log.


I think I would argue that if you provide a rewriting rule for SMTP
commands that cannot handle all possible inputs that may appear, then
you *have* screwed up... :-)

> Point is that I start panicking myself when I see that the panic log
> is not emtpy. :-)


That's good. Some people don't seem to notice it...

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