Re: return to sender recipe

At 06:28 2010-12-11, Richard Reina wrote:
>I am trying to find a recipe that would allow me to return a message 
>to the sender using ssmtp or msmtp -- I do not want to use 
>sendmail.  Does anyone know where I might find such a recipe?

Just pipe the message you're sending into ssmtp with the appropriate 
commandline.  If you want to supplant sendmail entirely (versus for 
"a message"), then:

$SENDMAIL="smmtp"
$SENDMAILOPTS="whatever options are necessary"

Normally, you'd use this just for FORWARDING:

:0
! address

But you can invoke it directly:

:0
| $SENDMAIL $SENDMAILOPTS address

(in which case you can change or amend options on that invocation).

When you say "return a message", are you trying to produce a bounce, 
or send some other message text back to the sender?

There are examples of sending autoreplies in 'man procmailex'.

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