Re: Customizing the rejection message?

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:23:46PM -0500, Brian Kendig wrote:
> Right now it seems that when SA-Exim rejects a message, it gives the 
> mailer a message like this:
> 
>   hits=49.0 required=5.0 trigger=40.0
> 
> which some mailers will then display to the human being who tried to 
> send the message.
 
Correct.
 
> Is there any straightforward way to customize this message to something 
> like:

Yes, you have to hack the code :-)

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:26:23PM +0000, Tim Jackson wrote:
> I've mulled over whether to write a patch that would make the message a
> config file option (or beg Marc to do it :), but I personally decided
> against it on these grounds:
> 
> 1. it's something you rarely need to change
> 
> 2. it's very easy to patch the source anyway
 
Those have been my arguments for not worying abou this so far :-)
 
> 3. with custom messages, you'd want to provide a selection of variables to
>    be used in the message, so you'd then have to mess around with
>    substitution 'variables' etc.

Exactly. It seemed like work, and it's a lot easier for everyone to edit
the source appropriately :-)

Marc
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