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Subject: RE: Some thoughts on qmail..
From: James Berry <james @ adastra . co . uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:48:19 +0100
To: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com, mj2-dev @ csf . colorado . edu

> The problem is that there are two different ways to glue qmail into
> majordomo.  The simpler but less flexible is to use a 
> .qmail-default file, which tells qmail to hand all mail to any otherwise
unknown 
> address to MJ, at which point MJ figures out what the address means and
how to 
> handle the mail.  This works fine if the domain isn't used for much else.
It 
> doesn't work at all if, for example, the other addresses in the domain are

> looked up in a database, because the database lookup also needs to use a 
> -default to catch its addresses. 

I appologise for the last aborted message.

Let's try again! :-)

All .qmail files (including .qmail-default) respect error codes:

0 means that the delivery was successful; 
99 means that the delivery was successful, but that qmail-local should
ignore all further delivery  instructions;  
100 means  that  the delivery failed permanently (hard error); 
111 means that the delivery failed but should be tried again in a little
while (soft error).

So; if mj2 exits with a "0" when it can't find the address
and "99" when it recognises the address

Then other applications that use the database can be after the majordomo
line in ".qmail-default".

Best wishes
James


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