On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:54:33PM -0000, Aaron Stone wrote: > > So following up on the issue of return codes from dbmail-smtp, I'm looking > around on the 'net for any documentation about any standards for return codes, > perhaps de facto standards (e.g. whatever procmail uses). Best I came up with > was the suggestion to use codes contained in /usr/include/sysexits.h. Seems > like a pretty good list of codes. Anyone know of anything better?
By default, Exim treats EX_TEMPFAIL and EX_CANTCREAT as temporary failures and any other non-zero return codes as permanent failures. These are the two return codes that procmail uses. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_29.html#IX2015
