Re: [exim] Discarding a message without reason?

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Author: Chris Edwards
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Discarding a message without reason?
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Tony Finch wrote:

| 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.


This is a rare expection to the "if it sounds too good to be true, it
probably is" rule !

Now where's my free lunch ?

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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service