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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-02-07 21:06:13 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1999-02-07 21:06:13 +0000 |
commit | 207f1d7aa75ebf4cd695fc1bc735dc98c49cc5f5 (patch) | |
tree | 23b00b775bf6fd70d6b43a8429910f0969a5e738 /fetchmail.man | |
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Added bouncemail option.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 0cb7f688..8005cc6e 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -765,6 +765,12 @@ can be found. Normally this is just the user who invoked fetchmail. If the invoking user is root, then the default of this option is the user `postmaster'. .PP +The +.B --nobounce +option suppresses the normal action of bouncing errors back to the +sender in an RFC1894-conformant error message. If nobounce is on, the +message will go to the postmaster instead. +.PP The .B --invisible option (keyword: set invisible) tries to make fetchmail invisible. @@ -956,6 +962,9 @@ T} set postmaster \& T{ Give the name of the last-resort mail recipient T} +set nobouncemail \& T{ +Direct error mail to postmaster rather than sender +T} set logfile \& T{ Name of a file to dump error and status messages to T} @@ -1216,10 +1225,10 @@ of `dns', `checkalias', `localdomains', and `aka' for details on how matching addresses are handled. .PP If \fIfetchmail\fR cannot match any mailserver usernames or -localdomain addresses, the default recipient is the value of the -`postmaster' global option if that has been set; otherwise it's the -calling user (as set by the USER or LOGNAME variable in the -environment). +localdomain addresses, the mail will be bounced. +Normally it will be bounced to the sender, but if `nobounce' is on +it will go to the postmaster (which in turn defaults to being the +calling user). .PP The `dns' option (normally on) controls the way addresses from multidrop mailboxes are checked. On, it enables logic to check each |