RE: What happens to bounced e-mails?

["David Kazias" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>When they hit my mail server, the connection was refused, so the messages
>bounced right back. I was wondering if WT did anything with those bounce
>messages, or does it just kill them?

Not really a WebTen issue. Basically, what's happening is Lasso or your
PerlScript is going to try an establish a connection to your mail server.
The mail server checks it's black list, finds the webserver qualifies, and
turns around and tells them that it's just not going to talk to them,
_period_. Thus, it never even receives the mail to look at so the content of
that mail is not going to be stored there.

At this point, it's entirely upto Lasso or the PerlScript to deal with the
resulting error and decide what to do with the mail. To my knowledge, and if
someone else out there knows better feel free to correct me, Lasso 3.X
doesn't store failed emails, it just lets them fall into the ether and logs
a generic error statement. You'd have to check and see what the PerlScript
does.

I'm fairly certain the only way you're likely to find out what the emails
might have been is if you have been passing the coresponding content
variables in the URL and had the WebTen logs configured to store URL
variables...

David Kazias
Eternity Web Designs Inc.


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