Subject line on failed e-mails

[Stuart Powell]

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.

[Craig Rants]

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

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

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

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[Stuart Powell]

That gave me some more places to look. Thanks.