Dan, I couldn't agree with you more. It's a request from the boss. He wants
people trying to mail to us and who get the bounce find out what the alternate
address is automatically to get into the list (an alias). He feels that most
spam coming in is sent in an automated fashion (and that if we bounced back a
message, only humans will be able to interpret it, and therefore, the automated
spammers won't). He's not concerned if some human spammers get the address (I
can just see them now getting the address and adding it to their list of
addresses to spam, but he doesn't see that as being as big a deal as not
allowing outsiders who are not members of the list still get the chance to mail
the list some way.) Anyway, he wanted me to find out if there was a way to
customize the bounce message and to whom the bounce message should go (and I
assume it's going to require patching resend or something like that.)
Anyway, since the boss requested it, I figured I at least had to find out if
it's possible and how it would be done.
Thanks!
Steve
> Steve Rifkin wrote:
>
> > Now, that I've got restrict2post working, when someone outside the restrict
> > lists sends to the list, the list owner gets a bounced (non-member
submission)
> > message.
>
> Congratulations ! :)
> >
> > How do I get some kind of customized bounced message sent back to the sender
as
> > well?
>
> Bad idea when you consider the possible mail loops that can be created doing
this.
> >
> > There are some lists here that for the senders that are non-members and
produce
> > a bounce, we want to send a message back to them automatically with some
> > site-details.
>
> This should never happen. Senders that are non-members should already be in
your
> restrict_post configuration. Those that are not "should be" handled by a
human,
> not an automated process. Automating the process would be nearly the same as
> just having an open list to begin with.
>
> Dan Liston
>
>
Steve Rifkin - JHU CS Dept Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
Technical Director
steve410@cs.jhu.edu
410-516-6281
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