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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unknown recipient when using metasend Post 22413 by thehoghunter on Monday 3rd of June 2002 01:52:01 PM
Old 06-03-2002
It could be that your servers use one central mail server to send email out and that all other servers are set up to send only. This would be done for security reasons.

If an email sent from user joe from System A goes to user jack -> on system B it may actually go to system E first as a central Email server. Then system E sends it on to system B. B rejects it due to a bad "To:" address and system E tries unsuccessfully to send it back to system A. System A rejects it and system E should then send it to whoever gets Postmaster mail.

A -> jack@B.us.com -> E -> jack@b.us.com <-> B (rejects back - no such user)
E -> joe@A.us.com <-> A (rejects - does not accept email)
E -> postmaster@E.us.com (mail undeliverable)

This may be what you are seeing - and then again, maybe not.
HTH
thehoghunter
 

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