[comp.unix.sysv386] MMDF & bounced mail

xeee02@mixcom.COM (Dean A. Roth) (03/31/91)

I have examined the manuals and I cannot find
a solution to this problem:

When mail is bounced (invalid user ID), the
complete message is emailed back to the sender.
What do I change in MMDF's configuration to
cause only part of the message to be returned?

(Rather than have a 40,000 byte message bounced,
I'd rather have only  the first few lines included
in the bounced message and save myself $$$
transferring the data.)
-- 
Dean Roth           deanr@mixcom.com

john@sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) (04/02/91)

|When mail is bounced (invalid user ID), the
|complete message is emailed back to the sender.
|What do I change in MMDF's configuration to
|cause only part of the message to be returned?

If you have control over what is invoking the "submit" program, have
it use the "c" flag, for "citation only" (see submit(ADM)).  If you
don't have control (eg. rmail), you can put

MLISTSIZE 0

in /usr/mmdf/mmdftailor.  This specifies that long lists of reply
addresses, in this case those with more than 0 addresses, will only
receive citations.  This will give submit behaviour like the "c" flag
above.

There may still be a few cases where the whole thing gets sent back
(in particular if it's the user agent that's generating the error
message).  Hope this helps!

tim@dell.co.uk (Tim Wright) (04/02/91)

In <441@mixcom.COM> xeee02@mixcom.COM (Dean A. Roth) writes:


>I have examined the manuals and I cannot find
>a solution to this problem:

>When mail is bounced (invalid user ID), the
>complete message is emailed back to the sender.
>What do I change in MMDF's configuration to
>cause only part of the message to be returned?

If you have source, recompile with CITATION defined. If not, I don't think
you can change this.

Tim
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