On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Tony Finch wrote:
> I've always wondered why Exim freezes double bounces, rather than sending
> them to postmaster (which is what Sendmail and Postfix do).
Well, I was thinking of myself as postmaster, and I sure as heck didn't
want them in my mailbox! And certainly not interrupting me. I rather
wanted them left on the queue so that I could either manually remove
them, or get whatever the problem was fixed when I looked at them at a
time of my own choosing. (Remember, this was 10 years ago, when we
didn't have the current forgery plague.) The freeze_tell option was
invented for those postmasters who wanted to know the instant a message
was frozen.
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