* Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> [2011-12-09 13:47]:
> A quick search shows that trivial-rewrite server has no "fatal"
> errors - it reports all errors that it can detect to the client (in
> this case smtpd(8)).
>
> However there is one low-level library module (match_ops) that
> exits the program with a "fatal" error.
>
> That module will have to be changed, so that the error can "bubble
> up" to its caller. That change needs to be made carefully because
> there is a lot of code that depends on match_ops: everything that
> uses mynetworks, mydestination, relay_domains, virtual_alias_domains,
> virtual_mailbox_domains, and more. That code must not break.
>
> I'll note once again that "optimally" reporting local configuration
> errors to remote SMTP clients has a low priority, compared to all
> the other work that need to be done on Postfix.
Hi Wietse,
thank you very much for your explanation! I understand that this has a
low priority. If there is time for it somewhere in the future I would
appreciate a change but I'm not holding my breath. :)
Thanks again and Regards
Sebastian
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