On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:49:00AM -0700, Chris Wilkes wrote: > In trying to figure out why my vacation program wasn't working > (qmailDotMode needs to be set to ldaponly, and not both like I had) I > changed by deliveryMode around to see if that would fix it. >
Hmm, acctually both should work only dotonly will not work. > After I found the solution I changed deliveryMode to "normal" as per the > somewhat missleading doc: > http://www.nrg4u.com/qmail/QLDAPINSTALL > "- (normal): put message into maildir/mbox, plus forward > and program delivery" > when I should of just deleted it. That's my fault. > Hmm, that entry is a bit misleading. I changed it to: - (no entry): default delivery, put message into maildir/mbox (localdelivery), plus forward and program delivery if specified. > However instead of bouncing the email back to the sender, would it be > better to re-queue the email for a later delivery attempt? Perhaps also > kick off an email to the postmaster alerting him of this problem. Right > now people immediately get a qmail error message when I could of easily > fixed it if I knew about it. > > I could of been tailing the logs for "failure" but things like not being > able to find hostnames show up as well. > In qmail it is not possible to send failure messages to the postmaster. To achive this you should use a log analyzer tool and some advanced regular expressions. It is true that there are probably to many failures that should be turned into temporary delivery errors. The problem is that it may take up to a week until somebody calls the support line. Which is not a big issue. I added that to the TODO list but as usual it may take some time unless somebody else makes a patch. > Is there an HTML-ized version of the above documentation? If not, is > there a desire for one? I should give back to the community for this > great software. Let me know (off list and I'll summerize) of any > concerns or comments about this and I'll work on it. > There is www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap that goes in that direction. I started to update it but got stock half way through. Contact me to get the SDF file. -- :wq Claudio
