On 21/06/07, Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Then a note in the docs is probably worthwhile. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
