Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 August 2000 at 17:20:52 +0200
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 04:46:12PM +0200, wolfgang zeikat wrote:
> > i use qmail-autoresponder in .qmail-default to send a message back to
> > senders who send to invalid users on our server.
>
> hey, nice idea :) looks better than the standard qmail error message...
Okay, but be careful here; a qmail bounce can be recognized as a
bounce, and thus automatically resent, etc. by the tools I use for
mail-reading (emacs VM). If you make up your own bounce format, you
may well end up taking away a lot of the sender's tools for handling
your bounce. So if you want to do your own bounce with your own
message, *please* take the trouble to do it in a common enough bounce
format that most tools that handle bounces will be able to figure it
out.
Truncating the message causes related problems. If I accidentally
mistype an address, and send some stuff, and it bounces, I can often
recognize the typo in the address and resend it very easily (M-r, edit
address, send). If you've truncated the message, I lose this
ability. I may even have lost the original files that were attached
by the time I see the bounce. Furthermore, I may not realize that
you've truncated the body, if it goes past the first few screens
intact.
I do see not wanting to bounce 10 meg files; but how often does it
happen, really?
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