Re: Suppressing error-on-error

[Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan@thus.net>]

Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:04:40PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > Is there any way I can suppress generation of error-on-error messages
> > in the postman directory?
> > 
> > We're using ZMailer to collect bounces & we're ending up with vast
> > numbers of messages in postman/ as a result of double bounces which
> > frankly we're never going to look at.
> > 
> > If not, how should I go about adding it?
> 
> Maybe a daily cron run:
> 
>   find /var/postoffice/postman -type f -mtime +6 -print | xargs rm -f
> 
> Codewise, there is magic 3-value playing with "no_error_report" variable
> in  scheduler/msgerror.c  file.
> 

My reading is that its non-zero if its an error message, starting at 1
before its decided if it has any real recipients to deliver it to,
changing to -1 when its found real recipients. So checking for it
being 1 after coming out of writeheader() looks like the right kind of
spot to add code.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc
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