fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) (03/11/91)
The otherday, I recieved about 400 bounced messages that
my machine tried to forward to another machine through
a third. Well, the third machine was down and the forwarder
bounced them back to me, who gets postmaster mail. I then
get a 1 Meg mailfile and no easy way to prosess it to resend
it when the machine went up again. I tried to edit the
file to remove the stuff about being bounced,
but that made it unreadable to elm. Why was it unreadable?
And how could I have remailed it without using bounce command
and typing in all 400 odd addresses?
Thanks.
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Voice: (301) 231-1481 Silver Spring, MD 20906jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) (03/13/91)
In article <1991Mar11.131603.10695@vitro.com> fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) writes: > >The otherday, I recieved about 400 bounced messages that >my machine tried to forward to another machine through >a third. Well, the third machine was down and the forwarder >bounced them back to me, who gets postmaster mail. I then >get a 1 Meg mailfile and no easy way to prosess it to resend >it when the machine went up again. I tried to edit the >file to remove the stuff about being bounced, >but that made it unreadable to elm. Why was it unreadable? >And how could I have remailed it without using bounce command >and typing in all 400 odd addresses? >Thanks. >-- > Steve Brailsford (fsb@vitro.com) _____ > Usenet: uupsi!vitro!fsb \/itro Corporation > Compu$erve: 73427,1466 14000 Georgia Ave. > Voice: (301) 231-1481 Silver Spring, MD 20906 Is it possible that the sender had a line like: Return-Receipts-To: in his elmheaders file? If so, and he posted to a mailing list then when all 400 recepients got the message, they all replied. I posted about the fact that you can't edit the line out when you put it into the elmheaders file, and got only one response. From a gentleman that told me how to edit the line into the elm send screen. I already knew how to do that. I got about 250 return receipts from when it happend to me. I quickly removed the line. Any chnce that the elmheaders file will be read BEFORE the main send screen in future releases of elm? Syd? Jim -- ARPANET: jadpc!jdeitch@nosc.mil INTERNET: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com UUCP: nosc!jadpc!jdeitch
hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) (03/13/91)
In article <1991Mar12.164342.9979@jadpc.cts.com> jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes: [...] >Is it possible that the sender had a line like: > >Return-Receipts-To: > >in his elmheaders file? If so, and he posted to a mailing list then >when all 400 recepients got the message, they all replied. I posted >about the fact that you can't edit the line out when you put it into >the elmheaders file, and got only one response. From a gentleman that >told me how to edit the line into the elm send screen. I already >knew how to do that. I got about 250 return receipts from when it >happend to me. I quickly removed the line. > >Any chnce that the elmheaders file will be read BEFORE the main send >screen in future releases of elm? Syd? Any chance that it would be an option in the send screen to include the Return-Receipts-To: line or not? (please!!) May be with an default entry in the elmrc file. I have the Return-Receipts-To: line in the elmheaders file too. And I fear the moment when I will mail into a mailing list. :-) Georg. -- hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp
jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) (03/14/91)
In article <1991Mar13.125822.25221@forwiss.uni-passau.de> hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes: >In article <1991Mar12.164342.9979@jadpc.cts.com> jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes: >[...] > >>Is it possible that the sender had a line like: >> >>Return-Receipts-To: >> >>in his elmheaders file? If so, and he posted to a mailing list then >>when all 400 recepients got the message, they all replied. I posted >>about the fact that you can't edit the line out when you put it into >>the elmheaders file, and got only one response. From a gentleman that >>told me how to edit the line into the elm send screen. I already >>knew how to do that. I got about 250 return receipts from when it >>happend to me. I quickly removed the line. >> >>Any chnce that the elmheaders file will be read BEFORE the main send >>screen in future releases of elm? Syd? > >Any chance that it would be an option in the send screen to include >the Return-Receipts-To: line or not? (please!!) > >May be with an default entry in the elmrc file. > >I have the Return-Receipts-To: line in the elmheaders file too. >And I fear the moment when I will mail into a mailing list. :-) > > Georg. > >-- > hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp It is already an option there. Just tell it 'u' and then type the header line as you want it. Jim -- ARPANET: jadpc!jdeitch@nosc.mil INTERNET: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com UUCP: nosc!jadpc!jdeitch
hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) (03/14/91)
In article <1991Mar14.014724.13357@jadpc.cts.com> jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes: >In article <1991Mar13.125822.25221@forwiss.uni-passau.de> hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes: [...] >>Any chance that it would be an option in the send screen to include >>the Return-Receipts-To: line or not? (please!!) >> >>May be with an default entry in the elmrc file. >> >>I have the Return-Receipts-To: line in the elmheaders file too. >>And I fear the moment when I will mail into a mailing list. :-) >> >> Georg. >> >>-- >> hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp > >It is already an option there. Just tell it 'u' and then type the >header line as you want it. ok. But I'm a little bit lasy. I want send nearly all mails with the Return-Receipts-To: and it would be a little bit annoying to type at every mail 'Return-Receipts-To: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de'. I think Rmail has a key-sequence for inserting the R-R-T: line, too. Georg. -- hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp