Re: Exim & Cyrus

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Author: Tom Samplonius
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Exim & Cyrus

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> > This works ok, except when Cyrus returns a temporary failure
> > (EX_TEMPFAIL). It seems that Exim interprets all non-zero exit values as
> > permenant failures.
>
> It should interpret a return value of 75 as a temporary failure (unless
> you set ignore_status, which cause all returns to be treated as
> success). The value returned should appear on your log and also in the
> error message sent to the message's sender. What was the log entry?


local_delivery is configured as follows, with no ignore_status:

local_delivery:
    driver = pipe;
    command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver ${local_part}",
    return_path_add,
    return_output,
    prefix = "",
    user = cyrus




The bounce looks like this:

>From Mailer-Daemon@??? Mon Dec 30 10:21:32 1996

Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 22:34:05 -0800
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@???>
To: tom@???
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The
following address(es) failed:

  dave@???:
    Child process of local_delivery transport returned 75 for command /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver ${local_part}


The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ dave@??? ------

dave: Over quota

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <tom@???>
Received: from misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.33] 
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 22:34:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@???>
To: Dave Ens <dave@???>
Subject: test of quota system
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961228223357.4642I-100000@???>
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> Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
> ph10@???             New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
> P.Hazel@???          England.  Phone: +44 1223 334714

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Tom