error handling bug in sendoff() of sendmail 5.65

[Neil Rickert]

In article <1225 at nikhefh.nikhef.nl> e07 at nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) writes:
>However, openmailer() will already have stored a proper status
>in ExitStat because it calls syserr() before failing, and syserr()
>sets ExitStat to EX_OSERR or EX_SOFTWARE.
>It makes sense though, to override this by EX_TEMPFAIL in case of
>a failing fork().

 Why exactly does this make sense?  EX_OSERR already causes the message to
be requeued, so what is the benefit of changing toe EX_TEMPFAIL ?

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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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