Gary Kline wrote:
write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the sendmail -bv ploy indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big deal; i was just wondering.
Uh -- sendmail -bv doesn't do what you think it does. It only shows you what your local sendmail would do with the message as it tries to deliver it. If it's not for a local user, then all it says is 'send it to the SMTP server responsible'and nothing at all about what the other machine would do with it.
The only way to find that out is by connecting to the remote sendmail, either by telnet or by actually sending an e-mail. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW
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