On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Doug Fields wrote:
> --- start here
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
> EMAIL-ADDRESS@DOMAIN
> Child process of TRANSPORT_NAME transport returned 77 (could mean
> permission denied) from command:
> COMMAND_BINARY
> --- end here
>
> I have replaced some internal stuff with all caps.
>
> In essence, I am indeed returning permission denied (per the sysexits.h
> header) from my pipe transport, but I don't want the user to know any of
> the internals such as the COMMAND_BINARY, TRANSPORT_NAME, return value, etc.
>
> Is there a way to modify the exim.conf file to have it omit or tone down
> this message?
Look at hide_child_in_errmsg. Also look at errmsg_file and errmsg_text.
[Exim 4 is better at hiding this by default.]
If none of those work, consider routing these messages via a special
transport, and write a transport filter.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
