On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: > The problem of yours likely is that the *sendwait* variable is not > set, i.e., your invocation should be > > /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx -Ssendwait -s test root@localhost < /tmp/test.txt > > because the MTA is otherwise invoked asynchronously, without > waiting for it to return. That is, we exit to our superviser > (anacron) immediately, but still have a child running (sendmail). > If the superviser just cares enough it may cause all such "garbage > processes" to be terminated, effectively resulting in you message > not being sent. > This conclusion is contradicted by your > > Even /usr/sbin/sendmail is not called in this case. > > however. I don't know what makes you think it isn't called. > Note that the upcoming S-nail v14.9.0 will set *sendwait* in the > global resource file for exactly that reason, by popular demand.
Dear Bjoern, Can you confirm that the new default solves your issue? Paride
