Emails Not Bouncing - CORRECTION

NateDog natedog550 at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon May 10 21:16:42 IST 2004


> I've been watching my mail server and all of a sudden I noticed it wasn't
> bouncing emails or sending notifications back to the senders of viruses
and
> such.  The reason I need this on is because some customers that I'm not
> aware of yet and haven't added to the whitelist may come through as spam.
> So I need it to bounce back and tell them that it was thought of as spam
and
> to contact me.  Then I add them to the whitelist.  The problem is it's not
> bouncing or sending notifications.  I tested it myself with a test virus
and
> it sees the virus and quarantines it but it never sends a notice back to
me
> the sender but it does send to the local postmaster.  I have all the
options
> set to send notices back for spam and for viruses but it's not doing it.
> The log file doesn't show that it is either.  It says it accepts the email
> then scans it finds the virus and then notifies the local postmaster but
the
> sender never gets a message back.  Very strange.  Here is my /etc/aliases
> file.  I think it has something to do with relaying but I'm not positive.
>
> 127.0.0.1 RELAY
> 192.1.1 RELAY
> localhost RELAY
> localhost.localdomain RELAY
>

It's not my /etc/aliases file it's my /etc/mail/access file.  Sorry I was in
a hurry lol.

--
Nathan Peters

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