On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:24:04PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > David Doan wrote: > >I have stumbled upon a strange problem with the Aliases list. I have an > >alias setup to send mail to several phones @messaging.sprintpcs.com. > >When the phones are grouped together in the alias list, they do not > >receive the correct FROM: information on the phone. > > We ran in to the same issue at my former place of employment. It became > a problem for us, because some of our users' wireless providers would > simply drop messages with a zero-length FROM address. To resolve the > issue, we forwarded the messages using dot-courier files instead of aliases. > > For example, an alias would exist named "pagegmessmer", which would > direct pages to my inbox as well as to my pager: > > pagegmessmer: gmessmer, gmessmer-pager > > I'd have a .courier-pager file that would, then, forward the message to > my pager's address. > > It won't transfer the original FROM to the phone, but it'll make sure > that you get something other than a zero-length address. You may also > be able to pass the message to a script which sends the message in a way > that meets your needs better.
Like using "sendmail -f" from .mailfilter. In our case, the customer did not want bounces to sprint going back to the email box, so we did it as you did we just do it in .mailfilter. The postmaster get's the bounces, and as a service we just let their IT honcho know. Note that we also ran into issues with size limitations on the phone mailboxes--if the sprint delivery got a failure, courier would keep retrying and put dups in the original mailbox. Sorry, I don't exactly remember our config but now I test $SIZE and if it's too big, I don't forward. m ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
