Robert Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I sent a few outgoing emails, and watched /var/log/mail/info as they went out.
>
> Three of them got errors from the remote SMTP server about invalid users,
> or a user was over the quota.
So far, so good.
> I never received a bounce email for the three that failed.
>
> In qmail/queue/bounce, there is a file containing three entries (one for
> each failed message), so it appears that qmail knows these SHOULD be bounced.
Ah, but is it done with those messages yet? qmail won't actually send the
bounce message until it has met with either success, permananent failure,
or control/queuelifetime's worth of deferrals for each and every recipient
of the message. It does this because it can then send a single bounce message
to the sender, and outline the delivery status and reason for each failed
recipient.
Probably those messages have remote recipients for which qmail has not yet
been able to establish an SMTP connection yet.
Charles
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