ERRORMAIL(8zm)                                                  ERRORMAIL(8zm)



NAME
       errormail - zmailer error message transport agent

SYNOPSIS
       errormail [-c channel] [-V]

DESCRIPTION
       errormail is a ZMailer transport agent which is usually only run by the
       scheduler(8zm) program to produce error  messages  from  canned  forms.
       The  errormail  program must be invoked with the same current directory
       as the scheduler(8zm), namely POSTOFFICE/transport.

       The program will interpret the host part of an address destined for its
       channel  as a file name in the MAILSHARE/forms directory.  It will sub-
       mit a new mail message consisting of the concatenation of:

          •   a To: header  containing  the  sender  address  (original  error
              return address),

          •   the file contents of the specified form,

          •   the  user  name  of each recipient address with some descriptive
              text indicating the specific error, and

          •   the message file being processed.

       This program will not report anything (except to syslog) if the  origi-
       nal  message  is  an  error  message  ("channel error" kind, e.g. "MAIL
       FROM:<>").

OPTIONS
       -c channel
              specifies which channel name should be keyed on.  The default is
              error.

       -V     prints a version message and exits.

INTERFACE
       This  program  reads  in processable file names relative to the current
       working directory of the  scheduler(8zm)  (namely:  $POSTIOFFICE/trans-
       port/).   Optionally on the same line the scheduler(8zm) may tell which
       host is to be looked for from the recipients of the message.

              relative-spool-path [ <TAB> hostname ]

       This program produces diagnostic output on the standard output.  Normal
       diagnostic output is of the form:

              id/offset<TAB>notify-data<TAB>status message

       where id is the inode number of the message file, offset is a byte off-
       set within its control file where the  address  being  reported  on  is
       kept,  status  is  one  of  ok,  error, or deferred, and the message is
       descriptive text associated with the report.  The text is terminated by
       a linefeed.  Any other format (as might be produced by subprocesses) is
       passed to standard output for logging in the scheduler(8zm) log.

       The exit status is a code from <sysexits.h>.


ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       ZCONFIG
              This environment variable is expected to be inherited  from  the
              scheduler(8zm),  and  it  tells  where scheduler's idea of ZENV-
              variables are located at.

Z-ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       Following ZENV-variables are used by the mailbox program:


       MAILSHARE
              This supplies the location of the directory under which  "$MAIL-
              SHARE/forms/hostpart" files are located.

       POSTOFFICE, ROUTERDIRHASH, ROUTERNOTIFY, etc..
              Variables used by zmailer(3zm) library, while posting error mes-
              sages.


FILES
       /opt/mail/zmailer.conf   (ZCONFIG)
       /var/spool/postoffice    (POSTOFFICE)
       /opt/mail/forms          (MAILSHARE/forms)


SEE ALSO
       scheduler(8zm), router(8zm), zmailer(3zm), zmailer.conf(5zm).

AUTHOR
       This program authored and copyright by:
          Rayan Zachariassen <no address>
       Continued maintenance by:
          Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>



                                  2003-Nov-20                   ERRORMAIL(8zm)

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