On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:38:08AM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Mitch \(WebCob\) wrote: > > > Right - I think I remember you mentioning that before... question for Sam I > > guess is which way is the most efficient? > > > > Or is there another way we haven't thought of... > > > > I wonder if the flock can't be skipped in the case of a /dev/null delivery - > > that would make this simple and "to /dev/null" would work... > > OK, I've been staying out of this discussion, but adding MORE > special-case code to ANY program for something like this is just plain > stupid in my opinion. It *needlessly* complicates the code, and > "special cases" are just that -- cases that differ from the norm. > > Please, if you want to throw away messages (and you are using maildrop), > simply set EXITCODE to 0 and exit. Done. *No* more programs are > invoked, *no* more I/O need occur, *no* more system resources consumed, > *no* more stupid special-case in the code. > > Note: (exit)codes other than 0 may also be appropriate here. > 0 works, I use it.
This should probably be documented explicitly in the courier and maildrop man pages (and maildropex). I've had several users ask how to send mail to the bit-bucket, and an example might help resolve confusion. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
