kevink@bryant.NCD.COM (Kevin Kelleher) (01/24/91)
I am using the default sendmail which Sun ships with SunOS 4.1 and have a need to do the following: I have a mail alias which redistributes mail to a number of people, but I would prefer that if mail is not deliverable to one of these people that the postmaster and not the sender of the message be notified. I tried having messages to the list be run through sendmail -fpostmaster, but that didn't seem to have the desired effect. Any suggestions? Kevin Kelleher kevink@ncd.com Network Computing Devices (NCD) (415) 691-2593
kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) (01/24/91)
Kevin Kelleher writes: > I am using the default sendmail which Sun ships with SunOS 4.1 > and have a need to do the following: > > I have a mail alias which redistributes mail to a number of people, > but I would prefer that if mail is not deliverable to one of these > people that the postmaster and not the sender of the message be > notified. Do all of these things: 1. If your mailing list is implemented as an alias named "list", have another alias named "owner-list" that point to the person you want to receive error messages. 2. Send mail to the mailing list using the sendmail's -f flag to change sendmail's idea of the sender of the message. 3. Insert a Sender and an Errors-To header into the message, both pointing to the person you want to receive error messages. > I tried having messages to the list be run through > sendmail -fpostmaster, but that didn't seem to have > the desired effect. The sender has to be a trusted user or the -f argument has to have a `!' in it for the -f flag to work.