Re: [exim] procmail on read-only fs returns success?

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Author: Axel Thimm
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] procmail on read-only fs returns success?
Hi,

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:18:01PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> I recently got my NFS mount tunred read-only. Exim delivers mails over
> NFS on this system using procmail. Unfortunately procmail seems to not
> notice that the append operations fail, it only nozices the failure of
> the logging operations.


> Shouldn't procmail return a failure on a read-only fs and have the
> mail bounce?


Turns out this is a pure procmail issue (file writing errors inside of
blocks are ignored), and unrelated to exim in any way. Sorry for the
noise.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net