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5 A delivery attempt results in one of the following values being placed in
6 addr->transport_return:
9 DEFER temporary failure
10 FAIL permanent failure
11 PANIC disaster - causes exim to bomb
13 The field is initialized to DEFER when the address is created, in order that
14 unexpected process crashes or other problems don't cause the message to be
17 For non-OK values, additional information is placed in addr->errno,
18 addr->more_errno, and optionally in addr->message. These are inspected only if
19 the status is not OK, with one exception (see below).
21 In addition, the addr->special_action field can be set to request a non-default
22 action. The default action after FAIL is to return to sender; the default
23 action after DEFER is nothing. The alternatives are:
25 SPECIAL_NONE (default) no special action
26 SPECIAL_FREEZE freeze the message
27 SPECIAL_WARN send warning message
29 The SPECIAL_WARN action is the exception referred to above. It is picked up
30 only after a *successful* delivery; it causes a warning message to be sent
31 containing the text of warn_message to warn_to. It can be used in appendfile,
32 for example, to send a warning message when the mailbox size crosses a given
35 If the transport is handling a batch of several addresses, it may either put an
36 individual value in each address structure, and return TRUE, or it may put a
37 common value in the first address, and return FALSE.
39 Remote transports usually return TRUE and local transports usually return
40 FALSE; however, the lmtp transport may return either value, depending on what