Re: smail and bouncing

[Soenke.Lange@escher.north.de (Soenke Lange)]

Hallo Pann McCuaig
> At work I have a bo system serving in-house e-mail. Most of the client
> machines are running IE on Win95 and get their mail via POP3.
> 
> Mail is transferred between ISP and the bo system using uucp and smail.
> 
> Everything is fine.
> 
> But . . .
> 
> Say a message comes in for 'pannm@work.com' instead of 'pann@work.com'
> and I haven't got the alias set up. It bounces.
> 
> What I'd like is for that bouncing to be deferred. I'd like it to go
> into a 'bounce' folder where I could look at it and either forward it
> to the appropriate user or let it go ahead and bounce.
> 
> Any suggestions, including RTFM suggestions, appreciated.
take a look at smart_user ... 
in /etc/smail/directors:
smart_user:
        driver=smartuser;
        new_user=$user@escher.north.de,
        well_formed_only,

as $user you can substitute ... postmaster or any user on your system. This
user get all the mails and can deliver it later...

regards
	Soenke
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