Re: [Exim] Mailer-daemon email address.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Vadim Vygonets
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mailer-daemon email address.
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Vadim Vygonets wrote:

> > If I send an email to blurgle@???, I also get a bounce from
> > mailer-daemon@???, whereas I would prefer to get a bounce sent from
> > mailer-daemon@??? (looks a little more professional, etc).
>
> There's no simple way to fix that. This address is qualified
> automatically with qualify_domain. Note that this address exists
> only in the From: header, so you can rewrite it based on
> X-Failed-Recipients: header. I don't know how it will work with
> recipient addresses from more than one local domain.


Exactly! That's the point. If you send mail to both blurgle@??? and
blurgle@??? you will get a single bounce message. Perhaps what you
really need is for the bounce to come from mailer-daemon@???, where
conceptually "c.com is a service organization that handles mail for both
a.com and b.com". After all, nobody thinks it strange if they send out
mail to xxx@??? and they get back a bounce message from
mailer-daemon@??? because of some delivery problem.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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