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Re: Filter for email bounce messages

#3989
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1991 18:22
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palkovic@mp.cs.niu.edu (John A. Palkovic) writes:
>This is a filter for email bounces which I hacked together over the
>summer.  It uses an awk(1) script to do the work of removing the text
>and subject of the bounced message. 

Why bother?  Just have IDA not send the message back.  Its a one line
change.

diff -c savemail.c.~1~ savemail.c
*** savemail.c.~1~	Mon Jun 24 12:23:02 1991
--- savemail.c	Fri Oct 11 00:31:50 1991
***************
*** 244,252 ****
  					break;
  				}
  			}
  			if (returntosender(e->e_message != NULL ? e->e_message :
  					   "Unable to deliver mail",
! 					   q, TRUE) == 0)
  			{
  				state = ESM_DONE;
  				break;
--- 244,255 ----
  					break;
  				}
  			}
+ 
+ #define BOUNCE_WHOLE_MSG FALSE /* Was TRUE.  DONT send back whole msg. -wsr */
+ 
  			if (returntosender(e->e_message != NULL ? e->e_message :
  					   "Unable to deliver mail",
! 					   q, BOUNCE_WHOLE_MSG) == 0) 
  			{
  				state = ESM_DONE;
  				break;


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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!wupost!uunet!wsrcc!wolfgang
From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
Subject: Re: Filter for email bounce messages
Message-ID: <1991Oct23.182254.19036@wsrcc.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 18:22:54 GMT
Organization: Wolfgang S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Washington DC.
Keywords: sendmail bounces privacy
References: <1991Oct22.163048.2156@mp.cs.niu.edu>