Re: [exim] Truncated warning messages (again)

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Συντάκτης: Andrew C Aitchison
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Προς: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Truncated warning messages (again)

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Christian Balzer via Exim-users wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:25:01 +0000 Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
>> On 17/02/2022 05:04, Christian Balzer via Exim-users wrote:
>>> Maybe phrasing here, but clearly the previous behavior of displaying the
>>> full response of the remote SMTP server is more "beautiful" than the
>>> truncated to the point of unreadable one with current Exim versions?
>>
>> Oh, you are comparing to a previous Exim version. I suggest you
>> log a bug, giving details of the versions, and any difference
>> in the configs used. It would also help to know what the state
>> of the retry DB is for the problem address prior to the delivery
>> attempt that results in a problem bounce message.
>
> Well, after re-jiggering my ancient bugzilla account I found it was
> already reported in all its glory, 2 years ago.
> You weren't kidding when you said a fix would not be quick, but this is
> still a major regression in my book...
>
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2535


As I read that bug, this does not appear to be a regression.
When the time comes to report that a message is still waiting in the
queue, if an attempt to send the message fails exim reports the full
message, but if no attempt is made *at that time, exim reports the
truncated message stored from the latest attempt.

As an alternative to changing DB, a possible fix would be to have an
option so that delay warnings only happen when a retry fails.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                    Kendal, UK
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