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In article <tih.677595600@barsoom> tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes:
>sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty) writes:
>
>>I have recently installed sendmail-5.65+IDA on our Sun's and
>>Bull DPX/2 systems here.  We have now noticed that Postmaster
>>receives the body of messages being returned to sender.
>
>I regard the current behaviour as a bug, which should be fixed,
>so it would be right to post this information to the net at large.

  Why exactly is this a bug?  Why is the deliberate destruction of data
ever a better design decision than the preservation of that data?

 You don't have to use:  OPPostmaster
 You can use OPMAIL-ERRORS
and then make 'MAIL-ERRORS' an alias for a shell script which preprocesses
the message to provide exactly those parts that you want.

 It is the behavior of the Sun versions which is a bug.  I challenge you
to come up with a shell script which restores the deleted data from a
bounce message.

 Please don't assume that everyone uses email the way you do.  It might
be quite reasonable at some sites for the postmaster to examine the
bounced message and refer it to someone.  This would be particularly the
case for a host where all mail traffic consisted of inquiries of some kind,
rather than personal mail.

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