From the 5.3.9 ChangeLog
09/05/02 "Steve Fulton" steve at esoteric dot ca
- vdelivermail now handles error return codes 100 and 99
when processing users .qmail files. Support for autoresponder
exiting with 99.
On Monday 30 September 2002 05:03 pm, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> vdelivermail improperly translates .qmail commands that return 99 into 111,
> which is a soft delivery failure. 99 is a success, but stop interpreting
> further .qmail commands. This causes problems with condredirect and
> bouncesaying. The following patch resolves the issue.
>
> *** vpopmail-5.3.8/vdelivermail.c Thu Jun 20 16:13:25 2002
> --- vpopmail-5.3.8.patched/vdelivermail.c Mon Sep 23 13:24:52 2002
> ***************
> *** 727,732 ****
> --- 728,734 ----
> switch(wait_exitcode(wstat))
> {
> case 64: case 65: case 70: case 76: case 77: case 78: case 112:
> _exit(100); + case 99: _exit(99);
> case 0: break;
> default: _exit(111);
> }
>
>
> As stated in this paragraph:
>
> command's exit codes are interpreted as follows: 0 means
> that the delivery was successful; 99 means that the delivery
> was successful, but that qmail-local should ignore all
> further delivery instructions; 100 means that the delivery
> failed permanently (hard error); 111 means that the delivery
> failed but should be tried again in a little while (soft
> error). Currently 64, 65, 70, 76, 77, 78, and 112 are con-
> sidered hard errors, and all other codes are considered soft
> errors, but command should avoid relying on this.
>
> http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man8/qmail-command.html
>
> May I have credit for this fix?
>
> Jeremiah Gowdy
> Senior Software Engineer
> FreedomVOICE Systems
