Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:23:10AM +0100:
1. do we want to bounce on MDA issues or just retry or what do we do?
Yes, fetchmail should bounce. Atleast for specific exit codes.
2. if we bounce, do we use the MDA, require an MTA, or try SMTP?
the MDA would be rather a notification service (rather than bounce)
if it's e. g. procmail.
An MTA option seems to be a good solution. Fallback would be SMTP?
3. (not directly related:) can we make sure MDA has only ever one
recipient for %T in multidrop? An option (default 1) to allow more
than one recipient might be OK for sendmail, but it's not suitable
for maildrop or procmail.
Specifying more than one recipient would mean that fetchmail will not
know for which of the recipients the mail has been rejected. I think,
fetchmail should send to only one recipient at one time. I
guess, this would require that the whole mail be saved in a file and
then used for delivering to each recipient.
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Sunil Shetye.