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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Date: Can it be specific to a shell??
Message-ID: <9793@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Oct 89 15:38:31 GMT
References: <72074@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1138@virtech.UUCP> <322@bilver.UUCP> <310@sopwith.UUCP> <35@minya.UUCP>
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In article <35@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:

[re: shell wrappers ]

>This is especially useful for the mail command; you might consider 
>a mail script that calls one or more mailers, and if they all fail,
>sends the mail to a nearby machine for routing.  
>not a big enough overhead that anyone ever notices.

How do you convince the mailers to just exit with an error status if
they can't deliver instead of generating dead.letter or bouncing
back to the sender?

Les Mikesell