On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Greg Larkin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a Perl script that will remove the Disposition-Notification-To
> header from incoming email messages so the annoying return receipt alerts
> will be removed from email clients here.
>
> I have a ~alias/.qmail-default set up like this:
>
> |/var/qmail/bin/strip_return_receipt
> |/var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
qmail handles each line in a .qmail file as a complete delivery
instruction. EG if you .qmail file looks like this
| cmd1
| cmd2
&addr1
./mbox1
qmail will process it as follows
pipe the original message through cmd1
pipe the original message through cmd2
forward the original message to user addr1
save the original message in mbox format in the file ./mbox1
Note the use of the word original. IE every delivery instruction gets
a copy of the ORIGINAL message to play with. if you want to massage
the message and then do something based on the modified message,
you'll need to do the following
| massge_command | delivery_instruction
So, your .qmail file would need to look like this:
| /var/qmail/bin/strip_return_receipt | /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
You'll need to make sure that strip_return_receipt provides the
modified message on STDOUT so that fastforward can see the modified
message as its input.
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Regards
Peter
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