Re: [exim] mail lost during nfs outage

Jason Keltz schrieb:

> 2005-11-07 18:37:49 1EZGRr-0006XY-P7 ** |procmail <user@???> R=userforward T=address_pipe: transport filter timeout while writing to pipe

Delivery failed.

> 2005-11-07 18:37:49 1EZGYf-0007kB-U2 <= <> R=1EZGRr-0006XY-P7 U=exim P=local S=3033

A bounce (DSN) is generated and sent to the sender of the
undeliverable message.

> ("lost" in this case = mail was not received and wasn't queued,

It was bounced.

> yet the
> mail server seemed happy that the job had completed successfully)

In a way, it had - the mail was deemed non-deliverable and so a
delivery status report was sent back to the originator.

-thh