On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 06:53:15PM +0200, Ralph SOBEK wrote:
Sometimes we have network problems such that the call of
procmail in my .forward file:
"|/usr/local/bin/procmail -t -f -"
causes sendmail to abort with a mailer 1 error, because procmail was
inaccessible due to automount network problems.
Yup. You don't have an alternative code to return to
sendmail if procmail fails.
Is there a safe way to just have the mail fallback to the main
mailbox? What is that "|| exit 75" code that I see in some examples?
The "|| exit 75" returns a temporary (instead of permanent)
error to sendmail, causing it to queue the message and attempt
to deliver it to your mailbox again at a later time.
Trust me, you want this, for precisely the reasons you have
noted.
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