NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/mail/sendmail/2193

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From: [e-mail] (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Removing msg body in IDA for postmaster
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Date: 2 Sep 92 07:48:45 GMT
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Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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[e-mail] (Peter Steele) writes:
>A while back someone posted a script that could be used in IDA
>sendmail for the POSTMASTERBOUNCE option that would remove the
>message body, leaving only the headers. I archived it but have
>only now gotten around to checking it out. Unfortunately I
>can't find it. I must have deleted it during some house
>cleaning. Does any one know the script I'm referring to?

I've just started thinking about this myself. I haven't gotten to it yet
but what I intend to do is make postmaster an alias to a script which does
two things:

1) Save the mail to a file (see below)
2) Pipe it through a sed which chops it at the first blank line, then forwards
   it to postmaster.

Of course, the postmaster address that sendmail knows about wouldn't be
postmaster, but sm-pm or something like that. that's because humans also
use the postmaster address occasionally. You don't want to chop their mail...

As for why you keep a full copy: Sometimes the bounces you get are bounces
of bounces. At that point, you want to open the real mail file, find the
message, and pipe it through something that chops after the _second_ blank
line...

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Alexis Rosen   Owner/Sysadmin,
PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
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