Uhh yes it does! I just sent a message from my xmail server to a bogus
address on another xmail server and my server returned the following
(with full headers):
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 23:05:21 -0700
X-MessageId: <1022997898264.87.dfserver>
X-SmtpMessageId: <S1132C>
From: dslfreeway.com PostMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Error sending message [1022997898264.87.dfserver] from
[dslfreeway.com]
X-MailerServer: XMail 1.7 (Win32/Ix86)
X-MailerError: Message = [1022997898264.87.dfserver] Server =
[dslfreeway.com]
[<01>] Error sending message [1022997898264.87.dfserver] from
[dslfreeway.com].
ID: <S1132C>
Mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rcpt To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[<02>] The reason of the delivery failure was:
550 Mailbox unavailable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[<05>] Here is listed the initial part of the message:
Received: from ntserver (216.162.173.98)
by dslfreeway.com with [XMail 1.7 (Win32/Ix86) ESMTP Server]
id <S1132C> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sat, 01 Jun 2002 23:04:30 -0700
Message-ID: <01fc01c209fb$4f48af40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 23:04:04 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700
If the other server had accepted the message and then couldn't deliver
it then yes it would be responsible for sending a return message.
Bill
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>From: Davide Libenzi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 2:49 PM
>To: XMail mailing list
>Subject: [xmail] Re: Invalid Address Bouncing..
>
>
>On Thu, 30 May 2002, Lee Rich wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello all, I hope someone can help me with this.
>> After running several tests against the xmail server, I've noted that
>>messages sent to an invalid address don't seem to be replying and informing
>>the sender. Or for that matter, informing the postmaster account that a
>>message has been sent to an invalid address.
>> Please don't tell me to RTM, I have.. several hundred times over and I
>>personally find it quite vague. Is there something I'm missing? Please could
>>someone let me know the correct procedure for setting up this functionality.
>> FYI: Xmail is running on a Linux box and is working very well with incoming
>>traffic. It isn't used for outgoing.
>> Thanks in advance
>
>XMail does notify the sender when the message delivery failed. obviously
>the sender address must be valid. if XMail route the message to another
>server it's other server responsibility to notify back the XMail server if
>something goes wrong.
>
>
>
>
>- Davide
>
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