Mail failure information

[Gautam Borah <ga...@picorp.com>]

Hi all,

I have configured James as my local SMTP server. I am running James on a 
NATed machine on SMTP port 2525, I am able to send mails from my local 
Jmaes server to other mail servers like yahoo.com, hotmail.com etc. But 
if I send a mail to a yahoo user wrongly, say I have sent the mail to 
abc@yahoo.com and there is no user named abc@yahoo.com, then I should 
get a error mail saying mail could not be delivered as there are no 
users named abc@yahoo.com.

Please let me know if my following interpretation is right or wrong,

After receiving the mail yahoo mail server finds out that there is no 
user named abc@yahoo.com and send a mail back to the mail server which 
sent that mail. But as my sending mail server is behind NAT, yahoo mail 
server could not send the error mail back to my server. This is the 
reason I am not getting the error mails from yahoo.

If I run my public DNS server and SMTP server on a static IP, then the 
bounced mail first comes back to my mail server which will send a mail 
to my mail id with the bounce mail information.

To handle such scenarios what would be the best way to counter this 
problem, any suggestions from the group would be appreciated.

Gautam

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RE: Mail failure information

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

> Please let me know if my following interpretation is right or wrong

It is wrong.

> After receiving the mail yahoo mail server finds out that there is no
> user named abc@yahoo.com and send a mail back to the mail server which
> sent that mail.

The bounce will be sent to the reverse path, which is set by your MUA,
typically to your sending address.  It is nothing to do with the path taken
by the message.

	--- Noel


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