Re: Re: Bug#202105: /usr/bin/noffle: failed postings disappear

On 20-Jul-2003 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>>>>>> "M" == Martin Godisch <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> M> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 14:22:44 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>>> Jul 19 13:57:06 debian noffle[8048]: Posting of
>>> <[email protected]> failed: 441 Required "From" header is missing
>>> Jul 19 13:57:06 debian noffle[8048]: Article <[email protected]>
>>> has no From/Sender/X-Sender field
>>> 
>>> OK, but then where did the file go? gone. Not in /var/spool/noffle
>>> anywhere.
> 
> M> Why should the news administrator have an interested in failed postings
> M> of users who are not even able to set their From, Sender, X-Sender, or
> M> Reply-To header?
> 
> I'll post this to the list in hope that at least these messages can be
> put in a failed.postings directory.

I've just checked a not-very-tested change into CVS that writes failed postings
into <Noffle spool>/failed.posting if no sender address can be recovered, if
the mail sending program is not present, or if the send returns a failure
status.

More testers wanted.

-- 
Jim Hague - [email protected]          Never trust a computer you can't lift.


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