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 SQL-Mail -- Receiver of generated mail does not exist

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Posted - 2002-07-02 : 11:07:43
robert writes "Hi @ sql-team !
Yes, I did the harakiri to set up sql-mail ... finaly with the helb of yur website, it works fine.
But there is one big problem:

My sql-server works behind a linux box, configurated to send out all emails with sendmail -- normally the best way to transport a lot of emails.
I own about 2000 email addresses, maintained by sql 7.0 server data-table ... subscirbung / unsubscribing and getting infos is done by the sql-server. This all works fine, except, that it happens, you get emails back with addresses like '.@.de' or ' ', even worse, 'notexistant_user'@notexistant_domain.com' or anything else...
sql-server now want's to answer this addresses, creates with xp_sendmail the email, sends it off, but sendmail doesn't accept the transport, because it can't resolve the emailaddress.
The email ist rejected to sql-server, the head sais only
from: "!Systemadminstator"
subject:"Unzustellbar (undeliverable) :...."
text blabla

Now, SQLMail stops. And this is the worst case, because you wont manage to delete this email wiht xp_deletemail, because sql-mail is down ...

Do you have an answer for this ?
regards
Robert dellschau"
   

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