> I have a script that uses mail to send messages to my notification list > addresses. > > Some addresses are folks who've change employers or retired and I removed > their addresses from the list. Yet, three of those no longer on the address > list produce bounces from the recipient's mail server because they're no > longer there. > > I grep'd all files in the parent directory and cannot find those addresses > anywhere on my system. > > What might cause messages to go to those missing addresses? Does 'mail' have > a cache that might include them?
a forward to a bad address from what looks to be a good address e.g. you send to foo@bar. over in bar land, foo.bar forwards to foo.bad. oops! take a look at the Received: lines in the header of a message that was bounced randy
