[exim] Re: cpanel/exim

I just received this reply from someone at cPanel.

Nick, please keep this stuff on the exim mailing lists.

J. Nick Koston wrote:
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> I was able to confirm the problem with auto_thaw being set way too low.
> Its been that way since we were very very very old version of exim (exim
> used to freeze a lot more things then it does now if I recall correctly)
> and has just never been changed. I'm surprised nobody caught it until
> now, but sometimes things just slip by if no one says anything.
> auto_thaw will be increased to only happen once before the message is
> discarded (instead of about 80 times!!).
>
>
> As for the accept and bounce on viruses, I was not able to confirm
> this.

Yes, someone else on the exim list has confirmed that the
accept-and-bounce behaviour wasn't configured by default in cPanel, it
just happens to have been manually configured that way by a large number
of your customers, according to the data reported in that exim-dev thread.

- Marc