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| author | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2007-06-26 11:21:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2007-06-26 11:21:36 +0000 |
| commit | c46cc0a465098c30e03323bb1918cf6d5bcd3c3f (patch) | |
| tree | ac32d4a0501609cc1f10fa41948cf0c989a85be5 | |
| parent | 64f2600a56e0201f23dd3496a499fff6ef22c0c0 (diff) | |
Add warning about missing retry rules to the default configuration.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/src/configure.default | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/src/configure.default b/src/src/configure.default index 156e9d144..55de5cb5a 100644 --- a/src/src/configure.default +++ b/src/src/configure.default @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $Cambridge: exim/src/src/configure.default,v 1.12 2006/10/25 08:42:57 ph10 Exp $ +# $Cambridge: exim/src/src/configure.default,v 1.13 2007/06/26 11:21:36 ph10 Exp $ ###################################################################### # Runtime configuration file for Exim # @@ -690,6 +690,12 @@ begin retry # hours, then retries every 6 hours until 4 days have passed since the first # failed delivery. +# WARNING: If you do not have any retry rules at all (this section of the +# configuration is non-existent or empty), Exim will not do any retries of +# messages that fail to get delivered at the first attempt. The effect will +# be to treat temporary errors as permanent. Therefore, DO NOT remove this +# retry rule unless you really don't want any retries. + # Address or Domain Error Retries # ----------------- ----- ------- |