Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:40:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mail sending problem (how can this happen?) Message-ID: <199602091640.IAA21293@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199602090942.KAA28516@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Feb 9, 96 10:42:09 am
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Christoph P. Kukulies said: > > In this context another question: A colleague had run in 'political' > difficulties in his working group where he got attacked of not having > informed some other group members about a certain fact. He was sure > he sent them a mail but the receiver claimed he never got the mail. > I looked into /var/log/maillog and found that sendmail logged Sent > (ok) or something. Is this the absolute proof that the message had > been delivered correctly to the receiving system? (The sending system > is a 2.1R FreeBSD, the receiving system some other - SGI). its proof that the other system accepted the mail. what happened after that should be recorded in that system's mail logs. non-conclusive, without those logs, sorry.
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