NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/mail/sendmail/2209

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From: [e-mail] (Eric Wassenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Removing msg body in IDA for postmaster
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:18:59 GMT
References: <root.715272995@merlin>
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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In article <root.715272995@merlin>, [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.

An easy way to send only the headers of bounced mail to the
postmaster, not involving any additional filters, is to
not use the 'OPpostmaster' option in sendmail.cf, and add
the following to the very end of savemail() in savemail.c

    q = (ADDRESS *) NULL;
    sendtolist("postmaster", (ADDRESS *) NULL, &q);
    (void) returntosender("Delivery failure", q, FALSE);

This will generate a separate message to the recipient given
as the first parameter of sendtolist(). The FALSE parameter
of returntosender() causes the body of the bounced message
to be suppressed.

Eric Wassenaar
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