Re: [exim] Diskless Hosts with Volatile /var

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Para: Ephraim Silverberg
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Assunto: Re: [exim] Diskless Hosts with Volatile /var
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Ephraim Silverberg wrote:

> The problem is that when the communications to the central server are down,
> we want the SMTP mail attempt to fail immediately and *not* spool the file
> for a queue run since these hosts are rebooted all the time (especially
> during times when there are communications problems ...) and the spool
> would be wiped out. How can I cause the MUA (e.g. Pine) to get an
> immediate failure condition in such a scenario?


(1) Install the latest release of Exim (4.44).

(2) Make us of the new mua_wrapper option, documented in doc/NewStuff
as a feature that was added to 4.43. (It will be fully documented in the
4.50 manual). This option does precisely what you want, I think.

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