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Re: How to exit procmail immediately with non-delivery error

2000-11-23 16:12:36
When I said,

T> However, 75 is probably a bad choice, as it
T> requeues the message for another try.  67 or 77 would be better.

Sean responded,

S> Are you saying that sendmail is keeping the SMTP session upen until 
S> procmail has successfully delivered it to the local mailbox?

No.  My impression is that the message would be requeued locally at the
recipient's end with its MTA, which would try to hand it to the LDA again at
a later time rather than bouncing it to the envelope sender.

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