From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 08:39:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA21217 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ncd.com (firewall-user@welch.ncd.com [192.43.160.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA21212 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by ncd.com; id IAA15994; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:41:25 -0800 Received: from z-code.z-code.com(192.82.56.21) by welch.ncd.com via smap (g3.0.1) id xma015981; Fri, 9 Feb 96 08:41:15 -0800 Received: from zolaris.z-code.com (zolaris.z-code.com [192.82.56.41]) by z-code.z-code.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA17487; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:36:46 -0800 Received: by zolaris.z-code.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01040; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:34:36 -0800 From: "Ulf Zimmermann" Message-Id: <9602090834.ZM1038@zolaris.z-code.com> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:34:35 -0800 In-Reply-To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" "mail sending problem (how can this happen?)" (Feb 9, 10:42) References: <199602090942.KAA28516@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 06sep94) To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" , freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Feb 9, 10:42, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > Subject: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) > In this context another question: A colleague had run in 'political' > difficulties in his working group where he got attacked of not having > informed some other group members about a certain fact. He was sure > he sent them a mail but the receiver claimed he never got the mail. > I looked into /var/log/maillog and found that sendmail logged Sent > (ok) or something. Is this the absolute proof that the message had > been delivered correctly to the receiving system? (The sending system > is a 2.1R FreeBSD, the receiving system some other - SGI). >-- End of excerpt from Christoph P. Kukulies It should a prove that the mail left the FreeBSD ok. If the receiving host was the SGI you can normaly say, yes, it was delivered. If it was a relay host, then the mail was only delivered till the relay host. After there anything can happen. So, if you have important mail and want to be sure it arrives, put the Return-Receipt: line into your mailheaders. Ulf. -- Ulf Zimmermann, NCD Software, 101 Rowland Way, Suite 300, Novato, CA 94945 phone: 415-899-7941, email: ulf@z-code.ncd.com, phone-home: 510-865-0204 ====================================== FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! -------------------------------------- FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations ======================================