Thu, 21 Dec 1995 GMT, "Fred H Olson WB0YQM" wrote:
> I have a small list that lately has gotten a few messages of the form:
>
> >Confirmation of reading: your message -
> >
> > Date: 19 Dec 95 14:59
> > To: nbhd-tc@freenet.msp.mn.us
> > Subject: rtk.net
> >
> >Was read at 23:46, 19 Dec 95.
> >
>
> These seem to be generated by the PEGASUS mailer,
> maybe in response to a request for confirmation
> maybe only in response to a request for confirmation from another
> PEGUSUS generated message. I really dont know the details of this
> mechanism.
Yep.
> The list with the problem runs under majordomo. Curiously my big list
> under Listproc has not had this problem.
>
> Has anyone found a general solution to keeping the list cluttered
> with these (short of filtering messages that start with
> "Confirmation of Reading" )
I have modified several MLMs to solve this problem at one time or
another. Basically, you want to remove the headers 'X-Pmrqc' and
'X-Confirm-Reading-To' (not sure on the capitalisation, I kill all
capitalisations) from the messages going to the list. That way,
Pegasus won't try to respond to a request for confirmation of
reading.
Under Majordomo, I changed the 'resend' program around line 194 to add
the following lines to the "list of headers to skip":
|| /^x-pmrqc:/i
|| /^x-confirm-reading-to:/i
This problem is not specific to majordomo, but other MLMs (perhaps
listproc) may solve the problem as shipped.
rik.
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