Re: [PATCH] public-inbox-mda: use <sysexits.h> status codes where applicable

[Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>]

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:

> Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> wrote:
>> Many MTA understand these and map them to sensible SMTP error messages.
>> 
>> Inability to find an inbox results in "5.1.1 user unknown".
>> Misformatted messages are rejected with "5.6.0 data format error".
>> Unsupported inbox versions are reported as "5.3.5 local configuration error".
>> 
>> All of these are interpreted as permanent failures.
>
> Resurrecting an ancient topic...
>
>> diff --git a/script/public-inbox-mda b/script/public-inbox-mda
>> index 766d58a..1f1252a 100755
>> --- a/script/public-inbox-mda
>> +++ b/script/public-inbox-mda
>> @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ my $config = PublicInbox::Config->new;
>>  my $recipient = $ENV{ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT};
>>  defined $recipient or die "ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT not defined in ENV\n";
>
> Btw, our current code still dies if ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT is unset
> instead of using a sysexit.h code.
>
> Should that be changed to EX_USAGE or EX_NOUSER instead of die?

I guess EX_NOUSER is appropriate here.

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