Delivery failure Message received by all users in dynamic group

Hi,

> I have been playing with the ldap URL that determines

> the group membership. In my testing I found that

> when sending mail to the group and an error occurs,

> like an unknown or illegal alias, everyone in the

> group gets the failure message as opposed to just the

> sender.How can I fix this so the failure message

> either goes just to postmaster or the original

> sender?

This question has come up many times before so I won't go through the details. Suffice to say the behavior you are seeing is expected of a group (as opposed to a mailing list). What you need to fill in is the "Error Message Recipient:" field in the group interface in Delegated Administrator.

If you want the bounce/error email to go to a postmaster use the postmasters address e.g.

Error Message Recipient: postmaster@mydomain.com

If you want the bounce/error email to go back to the sender (although I wouldn't recommend this simply because the sender very rarely has the ability to fix the error) you can use the "/" character (which has a special meaning in MS6.3 which you are running) e.g.

Error Message Recipient: /

To test where a bounce email will go, using the command:

./imsimta test -rewrite -from=random.domain.com <list-address>

Then in the resultant list expansion you will see something like the following in the details for each recipient:

[envfrom random.domain.com]

The address after the envfrom is the address that will receive the bounce/error emails.

Regards,

Shane.

shane_hjortha at 2007-7-13 0:44:29 >