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authorPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2007-06-26 11:21:36 +0000
committerPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2007-06-26 11:21:36 +0000
commitc46cc0a465098c30e03323bb1918cf6d5bcd3c3f (patch)
treeac32d4a0501609cc1f10fa41948cf0c989a85be5 /src
parent64f2600a56e0201f23dd3496a499fff6ef22c0c0 (diff)
Add warning about missing retry rules to the default configuration.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/src/configure.default8
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
# ----------------- ----- -------