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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.admin,news.misc,news.newusers.questions
- Subject: Re: Bouncing Back E-mail
- Message-ID: <3813@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:59:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.001000.7390@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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- In article <1992Sep14.001000.7390@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
- >I have ftp-ed what appears to be chunks of a procmail system from
- >usc.edu. I cannot decipher it.
-
- >Someone, please tell me how to just set up a simple system to
- >recognize a particular e-mail address and to bounce the mail back.
- >I am having a nagging problem with people who don't like my views
- >and who are proceeding to send me most unteresting pieces of e-mail.
- >Most of the stuff seems to come from people immersed in a most
- >narrow-minded culture.
-
- >With regards to bouncing back e-mail, I want to set up the bounce-back
- >system to appear as though my e-mail address is unreachable.
-
- I'd email, but this is of broader interest.
-
- If you consult the UNIX Email Software Survey faq, you'll see that local
- delivery agent adjunct programs such as "deliver", "procmail" and "mailagent"
- provide programmatic mechanisms for doing things such as this. This is
- a simple permutation of the ubiquitous "vacation" program. Deliver,
- procmail or mailagent (you'll need Perl for mailagent) are probably the
- least grief. None of these packages require root access to install or
- implement what you want. Consult the FAQ for official sources of the
- software and follow the instructions that come with the software.
-
- I only have personal experience with deliver, which is particularly
- easy to install and can do such things quite simply. I'm doing far
- more complex things than what you want. If you take the deliver
- route, I can send you some example filters which do things similar
- to what you want.
-
- Furthermore, if you're into hackery, you can usually do this with
- your existing mail system (but you'll probably need root access):
- - sendmail via sendmail.cf hackery, or mail-to-pipe aliasing.
- - MMDF has filtering of various types
- - SVR4 mail
- - UUCP-style "rmail" - replace rmail with a shell script that
- prescans the mail before handing it off to the real rmail.
- Just about any mail software with mail-to-pipe capabilities can do this one
- way or another.
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