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The Exim log records the arrival of a message, and then “Completed”, without logging any deliveries. Whats going on?

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The Exim log records the arrival of a message, and then “Completed”, without logging any deliveries. Whats going on?

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A0516: This is unlikely in current versions of Exim, because more logging has been added. In versions before 2.053, one scenario is that the message was addressed to some user who has set up an Exim filter containing the command “seen finish”, which discards a message without doing any deliveries. (In current versions of Exim this is logged as “discarded”.