Re: [exim] frozen messages don't get deleted

Marten Lehmann wrote:

>>I could be wrong, but setting to zero probably is interpreted as 'never'.
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> This actually seems to be the reason, it works now:
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> 2006-08-16 18:54:06 1ChKRM-0002RX-5V cancelled by timeout_frozen_after
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> Could anyone fix the spec accordingly? Usually _negative_ values mean
> "never" and with zero I would think "after zero seconds = now".
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I have yet to see a real-world device that could actually manage to count zero
seconds ..

;-)

'Zero' for never / not at all is used in other places as well, so is
Exim-consistent.

Setting up to handle negative values is not a good idea unless they are actually
needed. Spam scoring, for example.

Bill