Re: pipe and crashing commands

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pipe and crashing commands
\ Timo Sirainen (13 May 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (13 May 2007)
. . \ Adam Jacob Muller (13 May 2007)
. . . \ (Wietse Venema) (13 May 2007)
. . . . \ Adam Jacob Muller (13 May 2007)
. . . . \ Victor Duchovni (14 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: pipe and crashing commands
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Victor Duchovni
Date:	14 May 2007

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:34:10PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:

> If this needs to configurable, then someone will have to come up
> with an acceptable design and implementation, because I don't have
> enough time.
>
> Personally, I prefer that the mail receiving application returns an
> appropriate status under all conditions; if it can't stay in control,
> then I think it is safer not to keep inviting disaster repeatedly.
>
> BTW, I did not invent the idea of mapping invalid exit codes to
> hard errors; like many MTAs, Postfix does the same with SMTP.
>

For a pipe(8) transport running partly tested code, a "-o soft_bounce=yes"
in master.cf is likely a good enough solution.

--
Viktor.

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