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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:56:25 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suppressing bounce messages in sendmail
Message-ID:  <200503021156.26021.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <422461A4.5030801@mac.com>
References:  <200503011608.23270.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <422461A4.5030801@mac.com>

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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:05, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > The local user sending the email on the system has it's email redirected
> > outside (to us back at base) so we're not the bounce messages provide
> > pretty much zero useful information and just slow the link down when it
> > does come back.
> >
> > Does anyone know how? I've seen DOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS which would help,
> > but it would be nice to suppress them all if possible.
>
> If you set DOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS and LUSER_RELAY to nobody, that will
> probably have an effect close to what you've said you want.  However, it =
is

OK thanks, I'll give it a whirl.

> likely that solving the problem another way-- such as not sending mail
> which is going to bounce-- would be a better idea.

Yeah, unfortunatly I don't think it is possible..

The systems have 2 users on them (root & radar) and root gets some email (e=
g=20
daily checks) and radar gets about zero (unless there is a problem with a=20
cron job). We redirect both of these to us back at base.

The radar user sends some email (status reports from the radar for example)=
 so=20
if the network connection dies for a few days the outgoing emails start=20
bouncing  back to radar@ which then attempt to get sent to the outside worl=
d.

So we don't have any problems when the network is operating properly but=20
unfortunatly it can be rather variable in some places :)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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