Author: Robert Nicholson Date: To: exim-users, Robert Nicholson Subject: Re: [exim] Performing some action is pipe results in an error?
In my case I don't really care when it runs just that it runs in response to
an error in the perlscript.
I guess that just isn't possible.
although I cannot use "save" if I had a bootstrapping perlscript that called
my other perlscript I could use mail::audit to save the messages to a
mailbox when the perlscripts exit status indicated error.
On 3/24/08, Phil Pennock <exim-users@???> wrote: >
> On 2008-03-24 at 14:19 -0500, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> > From reading the documentation it doesn't look like it's possible to
> access
> > the return code of the pipe in order to conditionally take some action.
>
> Correct. In particular, "filter.txt" supplied with Exim notes:
>
> ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------
> Remember that, as was explained earlier, the pipe command is not run at
> the
> time the filter file is interpreted. The filter just defines what
> deliveries
> are required for one particular addressee of a message. The deliveries
> themselves happen later, once Exim has decided everything that needs to be
> done
> for the message.
>
> A consequence of this is that you cannot inspect the return code from the
> pipe
> command from within the filter. Nevertheless, the code returned by the
> command
> is important, because Exim uses it to decide whether the delivery has
> succeeded
> or failed.
> ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------
>
> -Phil
>
