Re: [exim] Discarding a message without reason?

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Richard Hopkins
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Discarding a message without reason?
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Richard Hopkins wrote:
>
> Would using reject rather than discard (under the circumstances I
> described) mean that I wouldn't have inexplicably discarded that message
> then, Tony?


Yes. If the sender is legitimate they'll get an error dialogue box or a
bounce message. If it's spam or a virus, the message will disappear as it
does with discard, but that's because the sender throws away errors, not
because you do.

Tony.
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