Rubber mail

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell):
>In article <35 at minya.UUCP> jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>>You might consider a mail script that calls one or more mailers,
>>and if they all fail, sends the mail to a nearby machine for routing.
>>Not a big enough overhead that anyone ever notices.
>
>How do you convince the mailers to just exit with an error status if
>they can't deliver instead of generating dead.letter or bouncing
>back to the sender?

If it's a Real Mailer, like Sendmail or Smail 3, it will have a command line
option to determine what action to take on failed mail.  In this case, you
would specify "do nothing".