Hi,
Having spent a chunk of this afternoon debugging an Exim configuration I mailed out to the users list on the off chance where someone else had the decency to grep the source code whilst I was eating dinner...
In any case having just looked at the source and apologies for not knowing the patch submission procedure, I would like to submit the following - this applies to the 4.80.1 tree which I think is current:
=========PATCH START==========
--- readconf.c 2012-10-25 04:37:38.000000000 +0100
+++ readconf.c.2 2013-05-23 21:52:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -3783,7 +3783,7 @@
pp = p;
while (mac_isgraph(*p)) p++;
if (p - pp <= 0) log_write(0, LOG_PANIC_DIE|LOG_CONFIG_IN,
- "missing error type");
+ "missing error type in Retry rules");
/* Test error names for things we understand. */
===========PATCH END============
This specifically applies to the config parser and makes the initial Retry rules error message at least indicate which section of the config that the error applies to - which to my mind is much more helpful than the previous message.
Please use or lose the patch at your discretion.
Many thanks
Paul
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Paul Osborne
Systems Analyst
Infrastructure Group
Computing Services
Canterbury Christ Church University
