error handling bug in sendoff() of sendmail 5.65

[Eric Wassenaar]

In article <1991May7.114948.16201 at mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> In article <1225 at nikhefh.nikhef.nl> e07 at nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) writes:
> > 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 ?

Because unfortunately I was looking at an old version of sendmail,
in which messages were requeued by markfailure() only for EX_TEMPFAIL.
The latest versions indeed will requeue on status codes EX_TEMPFAIL,
EX_IOERR, and EX_OSERR in markfailure().

Eric Wassenaar
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