Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)

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Author: Keith McCallion
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To: Tom
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Tom wrote:

> Well, non-zero exit codes are supposed to indicate failure. If it isn't
> a failure, why is it returning a non-zero exit code?


Some programs use it to indicate status of the request: It was queued, it
was sent, etc.

> You can ignore all exit codes if you like. There is pipe transport
> option to do this. I'd tell you what it is, but that would deprive you of
> the joy of reading the manual yourself.


I've read the manual, and I've found the two options, return_output and
return_fail_output -- setting them to false does not work.

The actual error I showed was an internal exim error, but I still have
Hylafax writting a message to stdout that exim insists on sending back to
the orginal sender. I have tried to write a wrapper and redirect stdio to
/dev/null, but it still returns the message.

I love exim, and I've been using EXIM on our mail server and installing it
on our customers mail servers for some time now, but this one 'problem'
is a bit frustrated. I am stumped on how to stop exim from redirecting
output back to the snder.

Keith
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    generated |/opt/local/fax/bin/faxmail -n -d Keith@98650614:
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------ |/opt/local/fax/bin/faxmail -n -d Keith@98650614 ------

request id is 527 (group id 527) for host localhost (1 file)

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


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