topic Re: Subject line on failed e-mails in Operating System - HP-UX

Subject line on failed e-mails

Stuart Powell — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:03:13 GMT

Our BAAN application will be sending out e-mails to various users. The subject line on each e-mail will show a unique invoice number. I want to capture any e-mail that fails to be delievers and generate a report that shows the subject information for the failed message.
Any ideas how I can glean that information. I can get the user's e-mail address and status from /var/adm/syslog/mail.log. But I'm not sure how to get the subject line.

Re: Subject line on failed e-mails

Craig Rants — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:12:49 GMT

You may have to check /var/spool/mqueue and match up the emails in there that are being resent with the failures from /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

GL,
C

Re: Subject line on failed e-mails

harry d brown jr — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:42:00 GMT

You will have to either use something like "openmail" to send mails, or write a perl program (or something similar), to scan the sending users mail file in /var/mail. If the mailing user is invoicer, then scan /var/mail/invoicer where "Action: failed" or for this message

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

live free or die
harry

Re: Subject line on failed e-mails

Stuart Powell — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:19:58 GMT

That gave me some more places to look. Thanks.