[fetchmail-users] Re: unsafe MDA procmail recommended by fetchmail

[Michelle K. <lin...@fr...>]

Hello Sunil,

Am 2005-11-14 18:23:58, schrieb Sunil Shetye:

> procmail has a way of returning with an error. You may append the
> lines below to your procmailrc for error handling.
> 
> ==========================================================================
> 
> # if procmail has reached here, delivery has failed. return with a
> # temporary failure code from <sysexits.h>.
> # 75 = EX_TEMPFAIL
> EXITCODE=75
> :0
> /dev/null
> ==========================================================================

This is, what I was searching for.

> WARNING: the above recipe works only when the program invoking
> procmail handles the exit code gracefully. Otherwise, all your mails
> will be trashed.
> 
> fetchmail will not delete these mails. Even, most SMTP servers should

I use only fetchmail + courier-mta while the MTA receives
regulary messages and fetchmail collect (at $USER request)
messages from other ISP's

> queue up such mails for a few days before bouncing them back. But, if
> you have other programs invoking procmail, you will need to check if
> they handle such exit codes gracefully.

So I think, courier-mta will work to.

Greetings
Michelle

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