| You haven't gotten a response partly because we are not
very familiar with sendmail.
dead.letter *is* a sendmail file. It is neither created
by MailWorks, nor is it used by MailWorks.
I don't know anything about the format of dead.letter,
or how you can re-route it.
My suggestion is that you have a script that periodically
checks for a dead.letter file, and notifies a human being
if it finds one - then the person can judge whether it is
possible to recover the information in the file.
As you get more experience with the file, you might
be able to automate it.
-Stan
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A further question now regarding the way that Mailworks deals with
mail. Can you tell me how the messages are actually moved around from
one machine to another? Do you copy them, use sendmail or something
else?
The reason I ask is that the customer wants to find out where in the
process described in .0 mail could end up going wrong and ending up in
a dead.letter. From this they might then be able to formulate some plan
for correcting the problem and moving the mail on in the process.
Thanks,
Brian
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| The way that MailWorks deals with mail is a rather broad
question. In your case, I think you are dealing with
a single MailWorks server, and the question relates to
moving mail from the MailWorks server to whatever
machine is running the MAILbus MTA - if not, you will
need to make the question more specific.
To answer the question I think you are asking, for outbound
X.400 mail, MailWorks uses a process called x488gsend to
transfer the message to the MTA. For inbound message,
a process called x488grecv picks up the message from
the MTA. In all cases, the message is either
transferred in or out, or a non-delivery is generated
(if there is an addressing or other problem.)
In no case is true X.400 mail sent to dead.letter -
that file is used strictly by the SMTP mail system.
The one possibility that I can imagine is if a message
coming into MailWorks through the command line had
an address that looked like an SMTP address to MailWorks,
then MailWorks would pass that message to sendmail, and
sendmail might deposit it in dead.letter. To determine
if this was happening, you would have to look at the
message in dead.letter to try to determine it's source.
The other possibility is that this is a message that
arrived at this machine over SMTP, and that it has
nothing to do with the banking system. Again, you would
have to look at the message itself to try to determine
its source.
-Stan
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