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Re: .forward caveat

1998-06-01 05:22:13

belhagin(_at_)bya1c87(_dot_)pl(_dot_)lucent(_dot_)com writes:
      I have a simple recipe that bounces mail back to a particularly 
annoying guy 
which looks like this:
      
      :0
      * ^From:(_dot_)*bum(_at_)some(_dot_)place
      {
              EXITCODE=67 HOST
      }
      
      The idea is that he gets information which states that I don't exist 
(I'm 
getting existential...sorry :). The problem is that he also gets my .forward 
file in 
the bounced e-mail so he knows that I do indeed exist. Is there anything I can 
do 
about this? I could probably just /dev/null his posts, but I want him to stop 
mailing me altogether and that's not the way.

The only way to not have a bounce message contain your .forward file is
to make procmail the local mailer and not use a .forward file at all.
If you don't have root access, there is no way to do it.

Okay, so that's not really true: you generate your own bounce message
instead of having sendmail do it, but I don't think that's worth the
effort, especially because I see little reason to believe that bouncing
his messages will make any different.  I mean, if he just wanted to
waste your time, he would have succeeded already, while if you just
went ahead and /dev/null'ed them then you would be blissfully unaware
(until you checked the logs) how many of his messages you didn't see.


Philip Guenther

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