Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious
On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote:
> I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade
> overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result that mail from new
> senders was always deferred because of an invalid condition value, and
> I didn't notice for more than a week.
>
> On the whole, I feel that if during processing an ACL condition gets
> an invalid value, that indicates a configuration error, and I'd like
> exim to panic, since I will notice a panic quite quickly :)
> Similarly for other run-time config file errors.
>
> I don't see any option to make this kind of error get treated more
> seriously - is there one that I've missed, or some other approach?
>


What sort of "invalid value" ?

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Cheers,
Jeremy