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From: jameel@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Akhtar Jameel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Undelivered mail while using sendmail
Keywords: SENDMAIL
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Date: 7 Feb 89 23:33:51 GMT
Reply-To: jameel@rex.UUCP (Akhtar Jameel)
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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HELP !!

I am a sendmail-novice trying to poke into the mail management process in
sendmail. My objective is to device a mechanism to 'automatically' reroute
mail which the mailserver is not able to deliver to the destined-receiver
owing to reasons such as: selective refusal to accept mail from our system;
hardware problems; receiver-machine down etc.

As far as I know sendmail does not provide any support in this regards. At
Tulane the system administrator 'manually' changes the R- address (receiver),
in the mail (header) that sits in the mailq for 2-3 days for reasons of
sendmail not  being able to deliver, to a host which accepts mail from us and
ultimately forwards it to the destined-receiver.

I will appreciate help from the system administrators or any one else out
there as to what is being done for this problem on the Internet ! Any
references, pointers, other information even someway related to this is
welcome.

We have a Pyramid system running 4.3 BSD UNIX here at Tulane.

HAPPY MARDI GRAS !!
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