On 2016/01/02 18:05, Devin Reade wrote:
> If mail is in the process of being sent (rather than sitting in
> the queue) we probably shouldn't complain about it.  If something
> like daily.local causes mail to be sent this can end up with a lot
> of false positives.  (False in the sense that nothing is actually
> wrong, so the system should be quite about it.)

I'm not sure about this... We don't exclude these for other MTAs and
it means you might miss a real delayed mail that is being reattempted
at the time daily(8) runs.


> 
> Index: etc/daily
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/daily,v
> retrieving revision 1.84
> diff -u -p -r1.84 daily
> --- etc/daily 30 Dec 2015 22:59:53 -0000      1.84
> +++ etc/daily 2 Jan 2016 06:25:55 -0000
> @@ -138,11 +138,15 @@ else
>  fi
>  
>  # The first two regular expressions handle sendmail, the third postfix.
> +# The fourth is for smtpd(8), and tries to allow for the possibility that
> +# something invoked from /etc/daily.local has just sent mail which is
> +# now in the process of being sent (and would thus often be a false 
> positive).
>  # When the queue is empty, smtpd(8) and exim -bp keep silent.
>  next_part "mail:"
>  mailq | grep -v -e "^/var/spool/mqueue is empty$" \
>               -e "^[[:blank:]]*Total requests: 0$" \
> -             -e "^Mail queue is empty$"
> +             -e "^Mail queue is empty$" \
> +             -e "|inflight|0|$"
>  
>  next_part "network:"
>  if [ "X$VERBOSESTATUS" != X0 ]; then
> 

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