On 9/26/10 6:59 PM, Stefan Monnier at monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: >> If the mail cannot be returned to the return address, it is for all >> practical purposes discarded. > > That describes the behavior I see, but in the case where the mail > originates locally, this behavior is clearly suboptimal: When the origin > of the message is /usr/sbin/sendmail, it doesn't seem completely > far-fetched to consider that the return-address is a local file. ... > Otherwise, some (potentially very minor or temporary) config problem can > result in throwing away very valuable, carefully crafted messages, with > no way to recover them, even if the misconfiguration is detected > very quickly.
Then the sender should save a copy. I do that the same as I make copies of important documents before sending them off in snail mail. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/
