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| author | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2005-01-04 16:36:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2005-01-04 16:36:27 +0000 |
| commit | 533244aff041c5fd9d193947f533a4c0150a9c9e (patch) | |
| tree | a5b4d34317f483e29a204af3cfdd0b11601c13cf /doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | |
| parent | 60dc5e56c3e1a53aa42c0b74a4af3f7a3ad9118c (diff) | |
Added the hosts_max_try_hardlimit option. (The removed file is left over
from a previous update; I screwed up the CVS-ing.)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-txt/NewStuff')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 30cb58ab5..5d6e915d3 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.24 2004/12/29 10:16:52 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.25 2005/01/04 16:36:27 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -247,6 +247,14 @@ Version 4.50 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead of $primary_hostname. +22. The hosts_max_try_hardlimit option (default 50) is added to the smtp + transport. Exim will never try more than this number of IP addresses; if it + hits this limit and they are all timed out, the message is bounced, even + though not all IP addresses may have been tried. Compare hosts_max_try, + which is a "soft" limit, because Exim will exceed it when hosts time out. + The new limit is a protection against lunatic DNS configurations with + hundreds of IP addresses. + Version 4.43 ------------ |