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- Date: 19 AUG 92 16:16:52 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: "Kasey Briggs, 792-2134" <BRIGGSK@Citadel.edu>
- From: "Kasey Briggs, 792-2134" <BRIGGSK@Citadel.edu>
- Subject: no copy of returned mail to postmaster
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- > We have a problem with our SMTP mail.
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- >On most systems I have used, an undeliverable mail message is returned
- >to the sender, and a copy of the rejection is also sent to the
- >'postmaster' of the rejecting host. On this machine, running VMS V5.2
- >and Multinet V3.0A, no copy is being sent to the postmaster.
-
- >I have tried to RTFM (Multinet) but can find no reference to having a
- >copy sent to postmaster. We have postmaster defined to be a local user
- >and anything mailed to postmaster is received there. Below is the header
- >of a rejection message sent to a local user who subsequently forwarded
- >it back. What has to be done to have an automatic CC: sent to
- >postmaster? (I might add that no copy is going to SYSTEM instead.)
-
-
- We had a similar problem here caused by a Multinet default that you should
- check. Multinet 3.0 set up a logical for postmaster (I can't remember exactly
- what the logical was called; you can show logicals for *post and catch it if
- it's there) which forwarded mail to System. We only use System for installs,
- so nobody was getting the errors
-
- You also need to go into multinet configure/servers and see what the
- smtp-postmaster is set to (this also defaults to System).
-
- Once I deleted the logicals and changed the smtp-postmaster setting in multinet
- configure/servers, I started getting lots of error messages to postmaster.
-
- Since this happened, we've taken the precaution of forwarding System's mail to
- postmaster. My big complaint about Multinet's defaulting to System is that
- it was messing up my BITNET error mail too.
-
- Kasey Briggs
- Postmaster
- The Citadel
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