Re: How getmail deals with delivery errors and with bounce e-mails

"R. Diez" <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Nov 2020 08:32:36 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I run Getmail from cron (via a timeout controller, because I don't want multiple instances of Getmail running), it fires up every 15 
> minutes, if there's a failure I get an email.
 > [...…]

Instead of unfairly denigrating me for looking at alternatives and trying to find out what their problems would be, you could do something 
useful instead, and tell me how you implemented getting an e-mail when getmail fails.

Because getmail does not do it, it just prints to stderr.

Specifically, when the /path/to/mymda process fails here:

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /path/to/mymda

Most advice I have seen on the Internet runs something like /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver there. But that is not enough to get an e-mail if 
delivery fails.

But I guess it's easier to say I'm Microsoft, right?