On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Piete Brooks wrote:
> IFF the pipe is the **ONLY** delivery mechanism.
It often is.
> They may look when email dries up (shortly after they changed their
> .forward)
Yup.
> The postmaster might notice.
Maybe.
> I am **NOT** convinced.
Your prerogative. That's why there's an option. My prerogative to set
the default the way I want it. :-)
> The *DEFAULT* should be to bombard postmaster, who can then turn it off.
I can no longer remember the background to why I had it set this way
back in the smail days, but I think we had users who were running pipes
to commands that always sent back non-zero statuses, even when they had
done their job.
> I feel srongly on this one ...
Oh dear.
[[You can write cron jobs to scan the logs...]]
I'll think about an option "tell postmaster if non-zero rc from pipe".
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