On 6/13/05, Marc Sherman <msherman@???> wrote:
> I just received this reply from someone at cPanel.
>
> Nick, please keep this stuff on the exim mailing lists.
>
> J. Nick Koston wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
I'm so glad to hear this. I submitted it on their cPanel Bugzilla in
hopes that it would be noticed and fixed.
http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2639
I don't know if anyone has looked at the report as it is currently
still unassigned, but it was probably just too difficult to
understand/believe.
But Marc, you rule, thanks for getting this noticed. auto_thaw
shouldn't be used (ever?).
Signed.
