Re: Configuring for use with qmail

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Marco Paganini wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:38:21AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
>
> > Marco: I think a more prominent log level for the error message would
> > be in order when the sendmail command fails, no?
>
> The problem is that sendmail will fork and always return a valid
> code...

... but some light-weight SMTP forwarders (nullmailer, ssmtp, etc.)
may not.

What I understood from "sendmail".

"sendmail" really means to thing:
- one thing is a more or less standard interface to send a mail from a
  unix machine
- the other is a particular implementation of it.

Some implementations may return immediatly a valid code guaranteeing
that if something goes wrong, they'll get back to you (using an mail
message usually?).  Asynchronous style. Others may not systematically
fork and try to be more "synchronized" style, giving you feedback as
soon as possible.

Please correct me.



> Unless you're wishing to wait, which is a no no...

Who's waiting for whom and why "no no" ?




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