topic Re: friendly BOUNCE message in Operating System - OpenVMS

friendly BOUNCE message

Willem Grooters — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:56:50 GMT

yet another MAIL question.
Suppose you send a mail to a non-existing user in a domain. Normally, you get a message back that this user doesn't exist - I would expect VSM does the same.
I know that unix's sendmail allows you to define some custom message for this reply (don't ask me how...), is there a possibility to do something similar in VMSMAIL?
In accordance with this: Is there a facility to send 'Out-of-0ffice' replies from VMSMAIL?

Re: friendly BOUNCE message

labadie_1 — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 04:33:56 GMT

For Out-of-office autoreply, you can do it with Deliver, available at

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware40/deliver/

Re: friendly BOUNCE message

labadie_1 — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 04:44:36 GMT

watch_mail does the out of office auto reply too, see

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware50/watch_mail/

Re: friendly BOUNCE message

Martin P.J. Zinser — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:56:05 GMT

In principle messages can be customized, as
can be seen in smtp.config for the SPAM type of bounces.

If or if not hp plans to extend this in future versions of UCX Gerard might be able to comment on better than me.

Having said that and as someone who had to write too many lines of code to parse "interesting" return messages from FTP servers I am not sure if it is a good idea to make these messages essantially free text.

Re: friendly BOUNCE message

Willem Grooters — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 01:41:58 GMT

Labadie - I _could_ have known...
Martin,
I'm aware of smtp.config - my mail server is protected by it. It would be nice if other messages, like the one I'm looking for, are actually added to this file, amongst other things (to name one: allow an external file for sites/addresses to reject...)
But where arte the other messages? Hack into SMTP? The manual tells me nothing.