chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (10/20/89)
According to les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell): >In article <35@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: >>You might consider a mail script that calls one or more mailers, >>and if they all fail, sends the mail to a nearby machine for routing. >>Not a big enough overhead that anyone ever notices. > >How do you convince the mailers to just exit with an error status if >they can't deliver instead of generating dead.letter or bouncing >back to the sender? If it's a Real Mailer, like Sendmail or Smail 3, it will have a command line option to determine what action to take on failed mail. In this case, you would specify "do nothing".