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| author | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-08-14 11:19:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-14 14:21:52 +0100 |
| commit | b12c503f6bd743dca11f8706ee93fab4cffb3b5d (patch) | |
| tree | 973b09c242d59f3f0d105849574a0d8f671d262d /docs/installing/email.md | |
| parent | e3dd5e513b13381843af53ffbce49e415ede02a9 (diff) | |
Clarify script/mailin error handling
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/email.md | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/email.md b/docs/installing/email.md index 8ed7331f2..8d6fc671f 100644 --- a/docs/installing/email.md +++ b/docs/installing/email.md @@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ Parts of this address are controlled with options in INCOMING_EMAIL_PREFIX = 'foi+' INCOMING_EMAIL_DOMAIN = 'example.com' -When you have set up your MTA, if there is some error inside Rails, the -email is returned with an exit code 75, which for postfix and exim at least means the MTA will try again later. Additionally, a stacktrace is emailed to `CONTACT_EMAIL`. +If there is some error inside Rails while processing an email, an exit code `75` is returned to the MTA by the `script/mailin` script. Postfix and Exim (and maybe others) take this as a signal for the MTA to try again later. Additionally, a stacktrace is emailed to `CONTACT_EMAIL`. A well-configured production Alaveteli install will have had the MTA make a backup copy of the email sent to the special Alaveteli addresses in a separate mailbox, just in case. |