Re: return to sender recipe

I am trying to do both: return the message back to the user with a message
explaining why it was returned.  I will try your suggestions below.  I'm
sure I will have questions.

Thanks very much for the reply.

Have  a great Saturday.

Richard

2010/12/11 Professional Software Engineering <[email protected]>

> 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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