Rumor has it that Jonathan W Herbert may have mentioned these words:
>Dave Sill wrote:
>> And you think that's bad? It would be better if it "looked" like an
>> error message?
>
>Well, in a way, yes. I like qmail, i couldn't care less about the bounce
>
>text either, but your average joe user seems to have a hard time
>operating
>under the pretense that their ISP's mail server occasionally tries to
>hold
>a conversation with them.
Some of the cutest email replies I've seen are from people responding to
those -- and when they find out it's actually the computer responding to
them, they seem rather tickled.
My vote: Just enjoy it! ;-)
>> >Is there a simple way to drop in a new text for these types of
>> >failure notices, without modifying qmail-send.c ?
>>
>> No.
>Sigh. Oh well =)
Is it that you're deathly afraid / unknowledgeable of C programming? To
modify qmail-send.c to change the input from immediate (within the program)
to a file in /var/qmail/control shouldn't be hard at all -- even I could do
it and I'm no wizard in C, by any means.
What would take the longest (for me) is quadruple-checking my work to make
sure that it doesn't open up any security holes... I wouldn't want to make
the most secure MTA available any less so due to a screw-up on my part.
However, opening a file every time there's a bounce would slow down qmail
some -- if you generate quite a few bounces this could mean a bit of a
performance hit.
Let me know if you need my help in making the change!
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
