I am trying to do both: return the message back to the user with a message
explaining why it was returned. I will try your suggestions below. I'm
sure I will have questions.
Thanks very much for the reply.
Have a great Saturday.
Richard
2010/12/11 Professional Software Engineering
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At 06:28 2010-12-11, Richard Reina wrote:
I am trying to find a recipe that would allow me to return a message to
the sender using ssmtp or msmtp -- I do not want to use sendmail. Does
anyone know where I might find such a recipe?
Just pipe the message you're sending into ssmtp with the appropriate
commandline. If you want to supplant sendmail entirely (versus for "a
message"), then:
$SENDMAIL="smmtp"
$SENDMAILOPTS="whatever options are necessary"
Normally, you'd use this just for FORWARDING:
:0
! address
But you can invoke it directly:
:0
| $SENDMAIL $SENDMAILOPTS address
(in which case you can change or amend options on that invocation).
When you say "return a message", are you trying to produce a bounce, or
send some other message text back to the sender?
There are examples of sending autoreplies in 'man procmailex'.
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