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