Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!jadpc!jdeitch From: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: processing bounced mail Keywords: elm mail bounced Message-ID: <1991Mar12.164342.9979@jadpc.cts.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 16:43:42 GMT References: <1991Mar11.131603.10695@vitro.com> Organization: Network Engineering Technologies, San Diego, CA. Lines: 40 In article <1991Mar11.131603.10695@vitro.com> fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) writes: > >The otherday, I recieved about 400 bounced messages that >my machine tried to forward to another machine through >a third. Well, the third machine was down and the forwarder >bounced them back to me, who gets postmaster mail. I then >get a 1 Meg mailfile and no easy way to prosess it to resend >it when the machine went up again. I tried to edit the >file to remove the stuff about being bounced, >but that made it unreadable to elm. Why was it unreadable? >And how could I have remailed it without using bounce command >and typing in all 400 odd addresses? >Thanks. >-- > Steve Brailsford (fsb@vitro.com) _____ > Usenet: uupsi!vitro!fsb \/itro Corporation > Compu$erve: 73427,1466 14000 Georgia Ave. > Voice: (301) 231-1481 Silver Spring, MD 20906 Is it possible that the sender had a line like: Return-Receipts-To: in his elmheaders file? If so, and he posted to a mailing list then when all 400 recepients got the message, they all replied. I posted about the fact that you can't edit the line out when you put it into the elmheaders file, and got only one response. From a gentleman that told me how to edit the line into the elm send screen. I already knew how to do that. I got about 250 return receipts from when it happend to me. I quickly removed the line. Any chnce that the elmheaders file will be read BEFORE the main send screen in future releases of elm? Syd? Jim -- ARPANET: jadpc!jdeitch@nosc.mil INTERNET: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com UUCP: nosc!jadpc!jdeitch