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Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 16:55:06 EST
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:44:22AM -0500, JC wrote:
> | Quick question. If I call a script in master.cf under interfaces to
> | non-postfix software, and this script exits non-zero, does the mail get sent
> | along it's way?
>
> No, but maybe.
>
> If a command exits with a non-zero status code, then postfix treats
> that as a failure and the message is moved to the hold queue to wait
> for you to fix the problem and then flush the queue.
This is wrong. The message is deferred (not held) and will be retried
periodically without manual queue flushes, if the exit code matches a
permanent error condition from sys_exits.h, the message is bounced.
-- Viktor.
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