On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:08:55 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Marc Haber wrote:
>> I can understand that. However, it would be _very_ good to have some
>> means of "this filter has already been run successfully on this
>> message" in addition to "we have already started at least once to run
>> the filter on this message, but we don't know if the filter ever
>> finished".
>
>If the system filter didn't finish - presumably because the system
>crashed or the power failed or the process got chopped or something -
>then Exim will not have updated the spool file for the message, and so
>it will still be in "first_delivery" state next time.
>
>In other words, the "first_delivery" flag gets unset only if an Exim
>delivery process gets through the delivery attempt and ends up with
>some addresses that it has to try again later, and then successfully
>updates the spool file for the message.
That's something I didn't know. Thank you very much for that
clarification. In that circumstance, first_delivery is of course
sufficient.
May I ask for clarification in the docs?
Greetings
Marc
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