From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 16:35:03 CDT

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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:29:14PM +0200, mouss wrote:

> Victor Duchovni a ?crit :
>
> >>why not use an MDA such as maildrop? this way you can do whatever you
> >>want.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Because this would be wrong. A delivery agent performing final delivery
> >to mailboxes must do so *atomically* for each queue file recipient,
> >because Postfix will either consider the delivery successful or failed
> >for each queue file recipient, there is no "half-delivered" state.
> >
> >
> I understand.
>
> On the other hand, if I send mail to A, and A receives it, I don't want
> to get a bounce when he does something with this message (copies to n
> files, sends to a data mining or archiving program, forwards to his
> friends or to a mumble_bcc_mumble). Since I didn't intend to send to A's
> friends, I don't consider such forwarding as "attached" to my
> transaction. It's more of a local processing issue.
>

You are confusing forwarding over SMTP (which can return separate errors
for each recipient) with final delivery via a program that confirms
success failure with a single exit code.

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        Viktor.

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