Paul,
Well, 'bounce' messages from postmasters, can get 'rejected' if the IMail
SMTP Security setting 'Refuse Null Sender', is enabled. That would give
similiar symptoms and yes, the hosting company should know this and probably
not use that setting. But it is an 'easy' fix for some spam related kinds of
issues and may be used too much by some IMail Administrators. I and others
here will be glad to tell them that they should not do this (it technically
is in violation of email RFC's!), but they are the ones who determine the
SMTP settings. Usually once they 'learn' more about spam/SMTP/Relay and use
the best settings, things work well for them and their customers.
The only other way to handle this (from your perspective) is to create some
user accounts for 'typical' (sales, info, test, etc...) addresses and place
Info Manager autoresponders on them. So email to these addresses, autoreply
and the sender gets more info. The rest get the nobody response, with little
help besides something like: 'The address you sent to is not valid in this
domain. Maybe you should check your 'Sent messages' to see if you used the
correct address.'
Daniel Donnelly
________________________________________________________
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul R. Loring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Nobody Doesn't Know
> Daniel,
>
> I tried this, but I never got a return to sender message. It just
> disappeared into the ether. So at least with the nobody forwarding to an
> autoresponder the sender realizes there is a problem.
>
> Do you think my hosting company set up the return to sender function
> incorrectly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Nobody Doesn't Know
>
>
> Paul,
>
> If you want the easy way out, remove the nobody alias. Then IMail will
only
> accept for valid users and aliases and list names, all others will be
> 'returned' to the sender and he will be able to determine which was the
bad
> address.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul R. Loring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:52 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Nobody Doesn't Know
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My hosting company offers IMail 6.04 as the e-mail package. I have a
set
> of
> > users that all can receive mail. If someone sends a mail with an
> incorrect
> > address, or a name that does not exist, I send them a message that the
> name
> > is wrong. Unfortunately, I have not found a way to tell them WHICH name
> is
> > incorrect.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas how I can do that?
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> >
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