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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?)
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:40:22 -0800 (PST)
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Christoph P. Kukulies said:
> 
> 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).

	its proof that the other system accepted the mail.  what happened
	after that should be recorded in that system's mail logs.

	non-conclusive, without those logs, sorry.