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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Email failure notice not displayed. Post 302557586 by Corona688 on Wednesday 21st of September 2011 04:13:43 PM
Old 09-21-2011
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Originally Posted by szc0025
When I try with my gmail, I get a mailer failure deamon notice. but when I give the same wrong email address on Unix, I am not getting the failure notice.
The same thing happens both times.

1) mail client sends the email.
2) mail server A accepts the message. The client disconnects.

What happens afterwards isn't detected by the mail clilent.

3) server A passes to mail server B.
...
n) server Y passes to server Z.
n+1) Destination mail server reached.
n+2) Whoops! There's nobody here by that name!
n+3) Send a bounce email to server Y.
n+4) Server Y passes bounce to server X.
...
m) Server B passes bounce to server A.
m+1) Server A receives the bounce.
m+2) Server A receives bounce email, stores it in the users' inbox.

This process can take minutes or days. Something along the chain might decide to wait and retry a couple times.

gmail does not know you're sending to an invalid email address.

gmail does not know the email didn't get through.

gmail just receives a bounce message, long after the fact, like everything else.



So there's not really any help for it. That's just the way email works. You need to start pawing through received mail to get bounces, and how to do that depends on 1) whether your server receives email at all, 2) how it does so and what it does with it.

Last edited by Corona688; 09-21-2011 at 05:18 PM..
 

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SCRIPT-EMAIL(8) 					  System Administration Commands					   SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)

NAME
script-email - Amanda script to send email notifications DESCRIPTION
script-email is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. It should not be run by users directly. It sends a notification email to the addresses specified in the MAILTO property. PROPERTIES
This section lists the properties that control script-email's functionality. See amanda-scripts(7) for information on the Script API, script configuration. MAILTO List of email addresses that will receive an email on command execution. It is a multi-valued property: property "MAILTO" "amanda@domain.com" "sysadmin@domain.com" "amandauser@domain.com" EXAMPLE
In this example, script-email is scheduled to be run before the DLE, on the server. The unqualified email address amanda will be passed to the email system unchanged. The script is then attached to a dumptype, which can then be specified for any DLEs which require notification. define script-tool pre-email { comment "email me before this DLE is backed up" plugin "script-email" execute-on pre-dle-backup execute-where server property "mailto" "amanda" } define dumptype user-tar-email { user-tar script "pre-email" } SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amanda-client.conf(5), amanda-scripts(7) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ AUTHORS
Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Amanda 3.3.3 01/10/2013 SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)
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