On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Jochen Topf wrote:
> > Perhaps the docs need to be amended to state categorically that:
> >
> > Removal (or omission) of the retry section, or inclusion of the section
> > with no rules, results in there being no retry attempts on any sort of
> > error condition. All errors will, therefore, immediately be treated as
> > permanent.
>
> That would be the least we can do.
As I and an OP pointed out, it does already say that, but I will make it
say it more loudly. I will also write a warning into the default
configuration.
People's expectations obviously differ. Mine is "no retry config => no
retry"; other people perhaps expect things to be different. But I don't
want to make an exception for retries. After all, "no routers => no
routing", "no authenticators => no authentication", and "no rewrite
rules => no rewriting", so why should retrying be different?
Exim has been the way it is for over 10 years; if only two people have
been confused, I'm not too worried. :-)
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