By the way, I had no indications of this happening using 1.21 or earlier. This does not mean that it didn't for certain, but I am pretty certain that it would have come up (I was running 1.21 and maybe 1.20 from the time they were made available until the newer versions with this configuration - exchange -> assp -> xmail -> internet). It is possible that I may have made some seemingly insignificant change to any of the players involved, though, most suspect being ASSP.
I have verified that I (seem) get only one failure message back to the sender when the configuration does not involve exchange, that being email client -> assp -> xmail -> internet. Unless I am misreading the documentation, I think this is also not the right behavior since NotifyTryPattern is set to the default, but I prefer it to a whole bunch of messages! Here is an example of the header for that: [<00>] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=[The maximum number of delivery attempts has been reached] [<01>] Error sending message [1137796073865.135234560.61c.banshee.buehlertech.net] from [buehlertech.net]. ID: <S75D07> Mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rcpt To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Server: <bogusdomain.com> [bogusdomain.com] [<02>] The reason of the delivery failure was: The maximum number of delivery attempts has been reached Thanks again for any thoughts or ideas... Jeff Jeff Buehler wrote: >Ah ... I was unaware of that setting. It's commented out, which >according to the documentation would seem to suggest that the errors >aren't (or shouldn't be) coming from XMail at all. However, the headers >indicate (to me, anyway!) that they are - here is an abbreviated example: > >From: buehlertech.net PostMaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:31 AM >To: Jens Jensen >Subject: Error sending message >[1137452256244.135361536.4d65.banshee.buehlertech.net] from >[buehlertech.net] > >[<00>] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=[The maximum number >of delivery attempts has been reached] > >Jeff > >Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > >>On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Jeff Buehler wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>>Hi everyone - >>> >>>Running XMail 1.22 my users have been reporting that "No server found" >>>errors are coming back in duplicate. The mails all come in after "The >>>maximum number of delivery attempts has been reached" and the user >>>receives a separate email for each failed delivery attempt, rather than >>>one email containing all of the failures (which is the expected >>>behavior, right?). Right now I have XMail set to try 10 times, so there >>>seem to be 10 emails that are sent to notify the sender of the failure. >>>It was set to 40, and in that case the user was receiving 40 (or so) >>>emails. I have not verified that the number of returns is always >>>exactly the same as the retry setting, but it is at least somewhat close. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>How's your "NotifyTryPattern" set inside the server.tab? >> >> >> >>- Davide >> >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]