lwv27@CAS.BITNET (02/07/91)
One of the fellows learning sendmail here just ran a test where sendmail was called to deliver mail to a user whose mailbox was on a 110% full filesystem Instead of the message being returned to the sender, it disappeared. What has to be turned on to get sendmail to do reasonable error handling? -- Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 Same Mbox: BITNET: lwv27@cas INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 America Online: lvirden
kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) (02/07/91)
In article <9102061846.AA08875@lilac.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes: > One of the fellows learning sendmail here just ran a test where sendmail > was called to deliver mail to a user whose mailbox was on a 110% full filesystem > Instead of the message being returned to the sender, it disappeared. > > What has to be turned on to get sendmail to do reasonable > error handling? sendmail doesn't do final mail delivery, so the problem is most likely /bin/mail. Long ago I remember noting with some surprise that /bin/mail didn't check the return value of the writes to the mailbox. Ideally it should truncate the mailbox to its previous length and exit(EX_TEMPFAIL) if a write fails, but the version I hacked long ago didn't do either of these things.