topic Tracing lost e-mail notification in Operating System - HP-UX

Tracing lost e-mail notification

Olga_1 — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:19:42 GMT

Hello,

Is there any way to tace an e-mail that was sent by a process to a non-existing e-mail address?

Thank you.

Re: Tracing lost e-mail notification

Hai Nguyen_1 — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:21:27 GMT

Olga,

Look into the text log /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Hai

Re: Tracing lost e-mail notification

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:24:49 GMT

All the mail send and received logs are kept in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log file. This is configured in sendmail.cf file.

-USA...

Re: Tracing lost e-mail notification

Olga_1 — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:27:07 GMT

In /var/adm/syslog/mail.log I can see that the e-mail was sent, but is it possible to see the body of the message?

Re: Tracing lost e-mail notification

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:31:49 GMT

Hi Olga,

There is no sent folder on unix boxes.

One the message is away, the body and attachments unless cc'd to a local user are gone.

If the message bounces back you'll see something but that obviously didn't happen.

Try this to see the fate of a message to that mail address

sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 mail@some.net

Type a line of text

Type a period

.

You'll get great diagnostics right up until the point the message gets accepted by the destination smtp server. If something else happens, you'll see it.

SEP

Re: Tracing lost e-mail notification

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:32:25 GMT

Olga,

Could you be a bit more specific, kind of proces ?

cron

/var/adm/cron/log

any details on the mailadres or sender ?

cd /var/mail
grep sender reciever

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

Re: Tracing lost e-mail notification

Donny Jekels — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:33:07 GMT

sendmail -v -d8.99 -d38.99 mail@wherever.com