How to get copy of bad mail to postmaster?

Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091 jeffe at sandino.austin.ibm.com
Sat Aug 18 03:52:25 AEST 1990


In article <1990Aug15.044541.7835 at metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> jimr at maths.su.oz.au (Jim Richardson) writes:
>Under IBM RISC/6000 AIX 3.1, how do you get sendmail to send a copy of
>undeliverable mail to the postmaster?
>
>I have added the options
>
>	OPpostmaster
>...
>However, mail to a nonexistent user is still just bounced to the sender;...

Defining the P option works just fine.  Jim's case was sending mail to
a bad user on the server machine; since the client sendmail is notified
immediately by the server that the user is unknown, the *client's*
error-disposal logic determines who gets the bounced mail.  If the
server receives mail that is then undeliverable (e.g., mail to
"@server:baduser at host"), then *its* error-disposal logic comes into
play.  So defining the P option on the server has no effect on mail
that is undeliverable at the client.
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