[Mailman-Developers] mm-handler 2.1.10(was:beforenextrelease:disable backscatter in default installation)

[Mark Sapiro]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

>--On Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:37 AM -0700 Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> 
>wrote:
>
>> If so, it seems that rather than just dropping a 'bad' message as
>> mm-handler seems to do when $BounceUnapproved = 0; and $BounceNonlist
>> = 0;, wouldn't it be better to exit with a failure status.
>
>Good idea. EX_NOUSER (67) would be a good code to return. Does Perl have a 
>module that defines these codes symbolically? I didn't see anything at 
>CPAN, but I found one here:
>
><http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/SysExits.shtml>


The two exit codes that seem to make sense are EX_NOUSER (67) and
EX_UNAVAILABLE (69). Perhaps EX_NOUSER for a non-existent list and
EX_UNAVAILABLE for a non accepted suffix.

I don't think perl defines these symbolically anywhere.

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