jimr@maths.su.oz.au (Jim Richardson) (08/15/90)
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 Om to /usr/lib/sendmail.cf, changed the appropriate line in /usr/lib/aliases from postmaster:root to postmaster: root, jimr and done a kill -1 on the sendmail process to make it reconfigure. However, mail to a nonexistent user is still just bounced to the sender; no copy is sent to either root or jimr. The alias "postmaster" works: mail sent explicitly to it goes to both root and jimr. So I suspect the "OPpostmaster" option is the problem. This is undocumented under BSD4.3, but is present in all the versions of sendmail I've come across before the AIX one. Apologies for not having RTFM, but the CD-ROM is pretty hard to navigate through and that's all we've got. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Jim Richardson Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Internet: jimr@maths.su.oz.au Phone: +61 2 692 2232 FAX: +61 2 692 4534
jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091) (08/18/90)
In article <1990Aug15.044541.7835@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> jimr@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@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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Jeffe ...uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!sandino.austin.ibm.com!jeffe first they want a disclaimer, then they make you pee in a jar, then they come for you in the night