At 11:01 AM Thursday 4/29/99, Brandon Pulsipher wrote:
>I am having a problem sending messages to /dev/null. I recently set a
>couple of .qmail files to /dev/null
>and now I see this in my logs:
>
>Apr 29 09:39:25 ns qmail: 925403965.005324 delivery 6356: deferral:
>Unable_to_write_/dev/null: invalid_argument._(#4.3.0)/
>
>I read through the archives and someone had suggest putting just '#' in the
>.qmail file. So I changed the qmail file to:
> #/dev/null
Right. So you now have a valid set of delivery instructions in your .qmail
file which consists of precisely:
1. comment (anything starting with a #)
2. Zero deliveries to programs (anything starting with a | )
3. Zero deliveries to files (anything starting with a . or / )
4. Zero deliveries to forward addresses (anything else pretty much)
>and now I see n the logs:
>did_0+0+0/
which is saying it successfully completed instructions 2, 3 and 4 and of
course ignored 1 as a comment.
>Apr 29 09:47:44 ns qmail: 925404464.344242 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
>
>So, my question is: Is qmail throwing this away now? It doesn't say
>deferral and I can't find any account that the mail went to, so I assumme
>this worked?
It didn't throw it away, it didn't defer it, it did everything you asked and
since there were no further instructions, it concluded the delivery to be a
success.
Regards.
