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[fetchmail]Stopping bounced mail

2001-03-03 09:14:19
I'm having problems stopping fetchmail from bouncing messages back to the
sender.  I am using the "set no bouncemail" in the .fetchmailrc file, but it
doesn't seem to work.  Or, maybe it doesn't do what I think it should.

My situation is this:  I am using fetchmail to check my mail, and then
forward a copy of everything to my cell phone email address (so I get a text
message on my cell phone containing the sender and 1st 100 or so characters
of the message whenever I get email).  This works fine, and I do get the
messages on my cell phone.

The problem is, lately my cell phone email account has been giving some
"connection reset" errors to sendmail, and then sendmail sends "Warning:
could not send mail for past 4 hours" messages back to the original sender.
I don't want the original sender to get these bounce error messages from my
cell phone address, so I tried enabling the "set no bouncemail" option, but
sendmail still bounces the messages.

Is there any configuration option that I can use to disable this bouncing
behavior?  What I would really like is to have sendmail bounce the errors to
the local postmaster account.




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