TD,
IMail will not (normally) accept mis-addressed email. IMails SMTP
will tell the sending server, 'user name is invalid' when that
message delivery is attempted. So IMail is working exactly as it
should. The server should _not_ accept a message for an invalid user.
However, if you want to do all this work yourself, you can create an
Alias named 'nobody', point it to your mailman account and this will
cause IMail to accept mis-addressed (the part before the @) email
and forward to mailman. Now you have to look over each 'bad' email,
figure out who it was for and forward to them.
Personally, I would not want to do this all day long! Easier to tell
the caller, you screwed up the address (or the sender did not set
his client right, so a 'Reply' got the 'wrong' address). OK, I can
see using this for some short time after an install to make sure all
is well, but not forever (IMHO).
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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In reply to 28 Jun message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>I have the postmaster alias assigned to a working account
>called MAILMAN. The postmaster account sends notices to
>MAILMAN when someone in this host sends a failed mail, but it
>does not send a notice when someone from outside this host
>sends to an invalid address at this host.
>For example, say I have a user account [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>but someone on hotmail erroneously sends to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and they get it back undeliverable.
>They call me and say "Why didn't your server take the
>message?". I would like to get a copy of all failed messages
>sent to the postmaster account so we know if there is a
>problem like this.
>Make sense to anyone? Is IMail capable of this? We are working
>on switching from EMWAC IMS which we have used for years and
>it has always done this for us, and we really like it for
>troubleshooting, so hoping IMail can too.
>Is this possible?
>Thanks!
>TD
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