Subject: Help with Bounce

From: Lorie Land <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 12:57:09 -0500 (EST)

This past summer we changed our server and updated to SCO UNIX 5.1.1.
Before the change, our bounce command worked fine.  The
enable-bounce-command is turned on for the system.  Now when we bounce a
message, it comes back to whomever bounced it, and does not go to the
intended recipient.  When it comes back to the bounce sender it appears
with:
	Resent-Date: (filled in correctly)
	Resent-From: bounce originator's e-mail address
	Resent-To: intended bounce recipient's e-mail address

Bounced message appears here.  
Can you give me any helpful hints?

Sincerely,

Lorie L. Land
Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity
8740 Founders Road
Indianapolis, IN 46268

317.876.8593 x114

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From: Richard Gering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 22:27:52 +0100 (WET)

> Can you give me any helpful hints?

It depends on what mail transport agent (MTA) was configured when the new
OpenServer 5 system was installed (sure the release wasn't 5.0.0, 5.0.2 or
5.0.4?)  Although you can select "sendmail" during the installation setup,
the MTA being installed by default continues to be "MMDF".

In Pine's default configuration, it tries to send the mail by executing a
binary called /usr/lib/sendmail. Even though MMDF installs such a program,
that merely is a front-end to MMDF. This front-end works reasonably well
but it seems to have problems with the less used options like Bcc:, Lcc: 
and, you guessed it, the bounce option. 

Because the SMTP server implementation _is_ capable of correctly handling
these options, the solution can be as simple as setting the "smtp-server"
field in Pine's configuration to "localhost" (providing that this field is
currently blank).

Give it a try and see if it works!

> Lorie L. Land

Regards,

- Richard Gering.

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