Re: Mail not bouncing back on errors?
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:47:48PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Boy, lot's of help from you... I should have been more clear, errors are
> not returning. I'm ued to getting mail bounced by on errors. it's not
> happening and I wonder what in my present setup is doing that. It
> happened in W98 Outlook and I've recently moved over to
> fetchmail/procmail. I tested it by sending to test@loopdeloop.com and it
> just went. No return with can't find it, etc...
According to the headers from smartlist your mail is coming out with an
envelope sender of "jgift@localnet.here". Since this is the address to
which bounce messages are sent and that address is invalid any bounces
you cause are being dropped on the floor (or being sent to the
postmaster of the bouncing site). You should be able to see this
happening by e-mailing an invalid address on your local system and
watching it bounce.
How to fix this depends onhow you've got your local mail system
configured. I always used to have Exim rewrite local sender addresses
into something that was usable on the internet - there is/was a section
to the end of exim.conf with an example of how to do this.
--
Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
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