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Postfix and Bounced Messages


marcnino
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Hey all,

 

I'm currently running Mandrake 10 Cooker, and I have a small Postfix problem. If I send mail to someone and it gets bounced (if I type in the wrong address, for example), the bounced message goes into /var/spool/postfix. However, a copy of the bounced message doesn't get sent to my e-mail client (KMail). Therefore, I don't know if a message gets bounced unless I check /var/spool/postfix.

 

Does anyone know how to get postfix to send the bounced message to my e-mail client? I tried digging through the config files a bit, but I couldn't spot anything. Can anyone help me out?

 

Thanks!

 

Marc...

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If it's getting bounced to user 'postfix' and you always want it to go to you, setup an alias in the /etc/postfix/aliases file. If you want it bounced to the actual sender of the flubbed message then try setting soft-bounce=yes (I think that's the parameter) in your main.cf file.

 

Wren

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Thanks for the reply, Wren. Adding the alias did the trick... it's bouncing to my mail client now. Thanks!

 

By the way, I tried the soft_bounce option, and all that did was put the bounced messages in a queue to be retried later... it didn't actually bounce the mail to the proper user.

 

Thanks again!

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