On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Richard Hoyle wrote: > I hadn't realised that exim actually exits, refusing to run if it > receives a debugging request as an unprivileged user.
... and I had forgotten that too. It is treated as "you are trying to request something that only privileged users may request - go away". > It probably would be good if the autoreply transport only updated the > 'once' db AFTER it had successfully submitted the message, but I guess > it's fair to assume that local deliveries don't fail under normal > circumstances. The comment in the code says this: /* Update the "sent to" log whatever the yield. This errs on the side of missing out a message rather than risking sending more than one. We either have cache_fd set to a fixed size, circular buffer file, or dbm_file set to an open DBM file (or neither, if "once" is not set). */ The code has been untouched for a very long time. I can no longer remember the detailed considerations that led to its being implemented in this order. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
