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Subject: RE: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)
From: "Greg Blakely" <greg @ vyger . net>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:41:28 -0500
To: "Jeffrey Goldberg" <J . Goldberg @ Cranfield . ac . uk>
Cc: <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
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In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808030735440.1218-100000@arpad.thegreen.private>
Reply-to: <greg @ blakely . net>


Originally, I wrote:

> > I have a list owner who keeps getting a failure message about
> his digests,
> > yet the digests appear to be going out -- (I receive a copy since I'm on
> > that list).
[snip]
> >
> > The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
> >
> > ------ |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper digest -r -C -l
> cap-sdwg-digest cap-sdwg-digest-outgoing ------
> >
> > Receiving 3
>
And Jeffrey Goldberg replied:

> I see that you are using exim (from bits that I've removed).
>
> exim can send a failure report for deliveries to pipes
> which write the stdout or stderr is the option "return_output" is true
> in the configuration for the pipe transport used to deliver the messages.
>
That was it exactly.  I told exim to only send errors on its pipe filter,
instead of sending along all messages, and it seems to have done the trick.

Thanks much!

-=Greg=-



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