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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1999-02-07 21:06:13 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1999-02-07 21:06:13 +0000
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Added bouncemail option.
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@@ -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