topic Re: error mail in Operating System - HP-UX

error mail

peterchu — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 02:48:20 GMT

We have a crontab user ( eg. cron_usr ) that have a scheduld job to use the "sendmail" to send out mail from the system , if the mail fail to send out ( eg. wrong e-mail address ) , then a error mail will return to the cron_usr , I think this is the default receiver of the return mail , is it possible to set another user to receive this mail ? eg. system administrator . thx.

Re: error mail

Steve Steel — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:01:03 GMT

Hi

Since the mailer only has the cron_usr mail address to return to there is no way to change it . You could try autoforward options (depending on your mailer) to send mail on to othe user.

Steve Steel

Re: error mail

Denver Osborn — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:28:24 GMT

If your "cron_usr" is not a normal user account, I would set an alias for the user to redirect any mail to the sys admin.

# vi /etc/mail/aliases
cron_usr : sysadmin@yourhost

# newaliases

Or you could change the way this cron_usr sends outbound email... ie/ address could be masked as someone else, but setting the alias would be a simple solution.

Hope this helps,
-denver