Re: [Exim] ignore delivery error

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ilya
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] ignore delivery error
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Ilya wrote:

> How can I tell exim not to send notification if there was an error in delivery
> protocol? Or at least not send it immediately?
> Ive been experimenting with cyrus lately, and sometimes I bring it down, and
> immediately I see in log for some incoming mail:
> 2002-04-12 00:28:34 16vsfp-000O4a-00 ** mail@??? D=local_user_cyrus
> T=local_delivery_cyrus: Child process of local_delivery_cyrus transport returned
> 75 (could mean temporary error) from command: /usr/local/cyrus2/bin/deliver
>
> sender gets error report immediately also.
> what Id like to do is not send back such errors, but keep mail in spool (as it
> does now) and try to deliver it on next queue run.


What operating system? Exim normally treats 75 as a temporary error, but
it depends on the value of EX_TEMPFAIL in sysexits.h. Look at the
description of the temp_errors option of the pipe transport.

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