Re: Smail3 question

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From: Karl Denninger
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 1990 15:12

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In article <10@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones) writes:
>
>>Karl Denninger writes:
>> > We are running Smail3, and need to have the functionality in
>> > "Return-Receipt-To:" that is present in sendmail and elsewhere.
>> > Anyone know how to do this using smail3?  [...]
>
>[ Smail3 will let you call a program to do delivery, or perform the
>delivery itself, depending on how you configure things. ]
>
>I think the easiest way to get the behaviour Karl wants would be to
>set up a shadow transport for "local" that looks for the Return-Receipt-To:
>header, and acts appropriately on it. The nice thing about shadow transports
>(in this case) is they are only called if the primary transport delivers
>sucessfully.

Hmmm... how do I accomplish this?  Anyone have a working example they can
send me (config files, etc)?

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Karl Denninger	AC Nielsen
kdenning@ksun.naitc.com
(708) 317-3285

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From: karl@naitc.uucp (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Smail3 question
Summary: How do I set up a "shadow" transport?
Message-ID: <1990Jul31.151206.11489@naitc.uucp>
Date: 31 Jul 90 15:12:06 GMT
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