Re: mail does not bounce!
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:47:32 +0530
"Sandip P Deshmukh" <deshmukh@escortsmumbai.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:57:25PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > First you need to wrap line at 72
>
> sorry for that. i just asked in another post, how do i make vi do
> this?
>
> > > if i send mail to a non-existent address, i do not get it bounced
> > > back to me. what can be wrong? i know the solution lies in
> > > /etc/exim/exim.conf but i do not know what parts of the file are
> > > relevant.
> >
> > How long you waited? Are you sending locally?
>
> say, a day or so?
>
Are you talking about mail you send to a LOCAL address that does not
exist or mail to an outside address? If sending to an address outside
your own local machine then you have no control over whether the mail
bounces or not. That is set up by the adminstrator of the mail host
where you are sending the mail. Many ISP's do not bounce mail sent to
addresses that do not exist because robot software can use that info to
build a database of valid addresses at that domain for spamming
purposes. It rather sucks for real users because if you mis-type an
email address you never know that the intended recipient never got the
message unless they were expecting it and ask you about it.
G
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