Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] [exim-dev] Bug: No warning or default for missing retry
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On 21/06/07, Jochen Topf <jochen@???> wrote: > Dropping mails on the floor when they can't be delivered on the first
> try is not "fully functional" in my book.
Then configure your installation not to do that. Other people might
have a different book.
> There might be cases when this
> is what people want (and they can configure their retry section to do
> just that). All I am saying is that this is unusual and unexpected so it
> should not be the default behaviour (or at least merit a warning).
Unexpected.... but entirely consistent with Exim's philosophy - the
absolute minimum functionality is hard-coded in the binary. Defaults
are provided by the default Makefile and the default config file. If
you take out a piece of functionality from the config, then it stops
working. Someone else might come along tomorrow and suggest that Exim
should warn you if you haven't specified a remote smtp transport... or
a local delivery router.... or.. or...
> I wouldn't have brought this up if there hadn't been two people I know
> who independently fell into the same trap and then came to me (their
> local exim "expert") to help them find out why Exim was not retrying
> mails seemingly without any reason. So this is clearly a somewhat
> surprising behaviour.
