Dale Schuster wrote:
Sandy Drobic
wrote on 06/22/2007 03:51:41 PM: After reading this I can understand very well just why you have trouble: the requirements are more than a bit weird and don't mesh well with common sense and current SMTP practise.
That is exactly why I'm red in the face and my forehead hurts from banging the wall.
I feel for you, I was stuck in similar situations more than once. (^-^)
Once you accept the mail you assume the responsibility for it. You could of course deliver the mail to the intended recipient and send back a copy of the mail to the sender. Technically that is no problem. You simply set up a transport for that domain where a script takes care to send back a copy to the sender.
I even contemplated adding an additional mailhop relay whose sole task would be formatting bounce messages. But then I reconsidered.
Yes, the concept as it is must not be used.
I really don't want to send the original message back to the sender, only send an informational message which can easily be done with "Vacation" as you and others have pointed out.
Additionally it won't hurt as much if spam comes in since vacation only sends a single mail to any sender within a week.
This is a source of confusion for me too. I'm not exactly sure where to look to accomplish Subject Rewrites. I think that may be a suitable compromise, but my requirements are specifically to add a tag in the message. Thank you for the ammunition I needed for arguing further.
The easiest way would probably to set up a procmail solution for that task. It should be done after content_filter. - check if spamlevel is not high, otherwise don't send to vacation - rewrite subject If you need to do more you will have to write a simple filter script that handles the rewrites and lookups you need. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org