"Greg Saylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> #1. The "please confirm you message" responses seem to keep being sent
> over-and-over again... Any idea why this might be happening and how I
> can set it so that it only sends out one?.. Perhaps a better way to
> frame this would be: what configuration file do you think I should be
> looking at/sending to help narrow in on this one?.. There's just a LOT
> here which is new to me and I'm trying to get my head around all of it....
Do you mean that you keep getting confirmation requests again and
again for the same message? Or that each time you send a new message
you are asked to confirm? In the first case, it's possible the mail
isn't actually being delivered. It remains in the queue and qmail
repeatedly tries to deliver it over a week. If that's the case, you
should find output in your debug logfile. If you haven't set the
LOGFILE_DEBUG variable in your config file, you would find the debug
output in either .../net-virtual.com/TMDA_DELIVERY_FAILURE or in
.../gsaylor2/TMDA_DELIVERY_FAILURE. It depends what the $HOME
variable is set to at the time the error occurs.
In the second case, you need to set the CONFIRM_APPEND variable to
point to a file where TMDA will write the addresses of senders who
confirm. It can be your main whitelist file or a separate file. If
it's a separate file, make sure to reference it in your incoming
filter with a from-file rule, just like your main whitelist.
> #2. Is there a way to set it up so that for the first days or so that it
> won't send out confirmation messages and give me an opportunity to flag
> the messages from mailing lists which I am subscribed to?... I'd rather
> not bombard the mailing lists with these type of confirmation messages
> (which would probably just get rejected anyways)....
TMDA won't confirm mailing list messages. Even if it did, the
confirmation would go to the list mail's envelope sender, which is
usually an administrator's address, not the actual list itself. Most
mailing list software includes certain headers that identify the mail
as coming from a list. TMDA looks for those headers and, if it finds
one, will simply deposit the mail in the pending queue and not send
the confirmation.
If you want to keep TMDA from sending any confirmations at all for a
while, change the ACTION_INCOMING from the default ('confirm') to
'hold'. Any incoming mail that doesn't match your whitelist will be
placed in pending but no confirmation will be sent. You can browse
the pending queue at your leisure and add addresses as necessary to
your whitelist. Once you're satisfied that you have most of your
regular correspondents whitelisted, you can go back to the default
action of 'confirm'.
Tim
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