"Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes. The message is deferred because preline exited with the
>appropriate status. qmail tries the delivery again and folows the
>instructions in the .qmail file, one of which is to save the message
>in the user's Maildir/ It stopped after 7 days as that is the default
>queuelifetime value.
When delivering to both a mailbox and a program, it's better to
deliver them via separate .qmail files because if they're in one
.qmail file, and either delivery fails temporarily, *both* will be
retried every time.
E.g., instead of:
~user/.qmail:
./Maildir/
|vacation
Do:
~user/.qmail:
user-maildir
user-vacation
~user/.qmail-maildir:
./Maildir/
~user/.qmail-vacation:
|vacation
This way, the maildir and vacation deliveries are independent, and if
one fails and is retried, the other won't be multiply delivered.
-Dave
