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Re: Sendmail, procmail & quotas

2003-08-26 13:17:53
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:56:30PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
Thus spake Scott Wiersdorf (scott(_at_)perlcode(_dot_)org) [26/08/03 15:43]:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:05:45PM +0300, Brock Rozen wrote:
I'm using procmail as my local mailer, and when a user hits a quota limit
now it returns a "550 5.0.0 <xxx(_at_)xxx(_dot_)com>... Can't create 
output" message.

<snip>

By not logging at all, stderr will be written back to the MTA,
allowing sendmail to generate a more "true" error bounce.

Erm...  Is there any way to log *and* provide a valid bounce?  I may be
reaching here, but last I checked, logging was seen as a Good Thing.  I'd
rather suffer with mystical bounces that completely disable logging.

I'm just giving my observations of how it appears to work (a co-worker
and I dug pretty deep in the source to find this behavior; a few
trusses and lots of logging revealed this behavior).

Unfortunately, I don't have any more help than this. I agree that it
would be nice to do both (maybe write your log to a named pipe that is
a tee to a logfile and stderr?), but I haven't thought much more about
it beyond that.

Scott
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Scott Wiersdorf
scott(_at_)perlcode(_dot_)org

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