Larry Stone:
> On 9/26/10 6:59 PM, Stefan Monnier at monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
>
> >> If the mail cannot be returned to the return address, it is for all
> >> practical purposes discarded.
> >
> > That describes the behavior I see, but in the case where the mail
> > originates locally, this behavior is clearly suboptimal: When the origin
> > of the message is /usr/sbin/sendmail, it doesn't seem completely
> > far-fetched to consider that the return-address is a local file.
> ...
> > Otherwise, some (potentially very minor or temporary) config problem can
> > result in throwing away very valuable, carefully crafted messages, with
> > no way to recover them, even if the misconfiguration is detected
> > very quickly.
>
> Then the sender should save a copy. I do that the same as I make copies of
> important documents before sending them off in snail mail.
Postfix has an option to send non-deliverable bounces to the
postmaster.
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
notify_classes = 2bounce ...
This is not on by default, because it requires that someone actually
pays attention to Postmaster mail. Otherwise, uncontrolled amounts
of mail would accumulate and bring poorly-monitored mail systems
down. It is no longer safe to assume that every Postfix sysadmin
reviews their maillog file regularly.
Wietse
