drb wrote:
>Hello Mark,
>Could you please let me know how to access smtp-log?
>So the mailman will bounce if it can't send email to a valid email ID?
>how many attempts will it take before it quits? I saw the email in the
>archives, but I cannot see who got it. Is there a feature where mailman
>can show which users got an email? please help.
On my Ubuntu 2.1.9 system Mailman puts its logs in
/var/log/mailman
With respect to "can't send email to a valid email ID", it depends
upon the nature of the error. If the e-mail address is valid, and
everything is correct, then the mail will be sent the first time, and
there will be no bounces. If the e-mail address is incorrect, the
receiving mail system will bounce the mail, and Mailman will not
retry. If the SMTP (RFC 2821) dialog with the remote mailer
results in a 400-level return code, then the mail will be retried.
If the SMTP dialog results in a 500-level return code, then a retry
will not occur.
I believe that Mailman relies on a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA),
for example, Postfix, to do its mail delivery, It is the MTA that
handles the retry.
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