Re: -oee ... another reference

Sorry that this is rather out of context by being severely delayed,
but I thought I'd say what I was going to say when I marked this
message for reply:

The -oee option, if it is intended to avoid duplicate error messages,
should only suppress the usual non-zero exit status for failed
messages if a bounce message has been successfully sent (or at least
queued).

Otherwise you might lose mail completely and not know about it.

Ian.

Bruno VUILLEMIN writes ("-oee ... another reference"):
> Philip Hazel wrote :
> >> Majordomo launches "sendmail -oee ..." in majordomo.cf
> >>
> >> If I am right, this option tells sendmail to return 0 even
> >> when an error occurs.
> >>
> >> Exim doesn't accept this parameter.
> >
> >The Solaris 2 man page for sendmail says that -oee specifies "special
> >processing for BerkNet". The man page for Smail 3 says "These forms
> >refer to a berknet error processing style which is not supported.
> >If used, errors will be mailed back to the sender." I assumed this was
> >something parochial and possibly even out-of-date, so I didn't implement
> >anything.
> >
> >Can anybody confirm that it actually means "return 0 even on error"?
> >
> Well I came back home at noon to get the Sendmail book [O'Reilly 8/95]
> Here is what is written page 505 and 506 (Chapt 30 : Options)
> Please forgive my typos !
> -oee,
> (last e) like m, but always exits with a zero exit status. This mode
> is intended for use from the command line. The e mode is used by the
> rmail(8) program when it invokes sendmail. On some system, if
> send mail exits with a non-zero value (fails), the uuxqt(8) program
> sends its own error message. This results in two error messages being
> sent, whereas only one should eve be sent. Worse still, the error
> message from uuxqt may contain a bad address, one that may itself
> bounce.
>
> So I think that majordomo may need such an option to
> manage some special errors. But I may be too pessimistic !
>
> And when you don't remove -oee from the majordomo.cf file,
> you can send a mail to majordomo, exim delivers it,
> but you never get the answer. Once -oee it removed it
> seems to work ! But how long.
>
> Bruno Vuillemin
> (postmaster@???, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
>