Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-19 Thread Andy Bennett via Exim-users
Hi, I didn't suggest changing the rules, I asked whether I'd missed a way to configure the rules (e.g. to replace "defer" by "panic"). Failing that, any way to grep the logs for things that "shouldn't happen" would be useful. Of course I can now grep for this particular error, but I'm sure there

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/07/2019 21:52, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: > I didn't suggest changing the rules, I asked whether I'd missed a way > to configure the rules (e.g. to replace "defer" by "panic"). It's surprisingly hard to detect a "defer". I ascribe this to our indoctrination with Boolean logic.

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Julian Bradfield via Exim-users
On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: > On 18/07/2019 21:00, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: >> On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: >>> On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/07/2019 21:00, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: > On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: >> On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: >>> I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade >>> overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result th

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Julian Bradfield via Exim-users
On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: > On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: >> I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade >> overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result that mail from new >> senders was always deferred because of an inv

[exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Julian Bradfield via Exim-users
I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result that mail from new senders was always deferred because of an invalid condition value, and I didn't notice for more than a week. On the whole, I feel that if during processing an ACL cond

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: > I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade > overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result that mail from new > senders was always deferred because of an invalid condition value, and > I didn't notice for more than