Tracing lost e-mail notification

[Olga_1]

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.

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Olga,

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

Hai

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

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

-USA...

[Olga_1]

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?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

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

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

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.

[Donny Jekels]

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