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Article #2744bsd4.3 sendmail and smtp mailers
From: Joel Breazeale
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1988 21:16
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1988 21:16
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I recently began using SMTP via a mailer which uses Aegis
mailboxes. The mailer is invoked using:
Mmbx, P=/usr/lib/mailer/mbxsmtp, F=msDFMuCX, A=mbxsmtp -n //$h
Firstly:
I'd like to know if anyone else uses SMTP via a mailer (not [IPC]).
I'd like to get a description of what the mailer uses to support SMTP.
Secondly:
Occasionally, the mailer fails due to various problems and exits with
a status of EX_TEMPFAIL which is 75, which means that sendmail is
supposed to try again later.
Unfortunately, sendmail returns a copy of the message when the mailer
exits with a "75" even though it does requeue the message. The message
I get looks like this:
Received: by apollo.UUCP id AB10811; Thu, 7 Jul 88 16:28:56 edt
From: MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Deferred
To: jlb
----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 jlb@mc.lcs.mit.edu... reply: read error
554 smtpquit reply error: stat 75
----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: by apollo.UUCP id AA10811; Thu, 7 Jul 88 16:28:56 edt
...
Does anyone know how to stop the returned messages (or is this the
way bsd4.3 sendmail is supposed to work)?
Finally:
What mailer flags do you use with your SMTP mailer (again, not [IPC])?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Joel Breazeale
Internet: jlb@apollo.com
UUCP: {mit-eddie,decwrl!decvax,attunix}!apollo!jlb
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!apollo!jlb From: jlb@apollo.uucp (Joel Breazeale) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: bsd4.3 sendmail and smtp mailers Message-ID: <3d596f69.44e6@apollo.uucp> Date: 19 Jul 88 21:16:00 GMT Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 45