Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: sendmail 5.65+IDA, e-mail privacy. Message-ID: <1991Jun22.152216.31427@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 22 Jun 91 15:22:16 GMT References: <1991Jun21.060835.904@melb.bull.oz.au> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 33 In article tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes: >sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty) writes: > >>I have recently installed sendmail-5.65+IDA on our Sun's and >>Bull DPX/2 systems here. We have now noticed that Postmaster >>receives the body of messages being returned to sender. > >I regard the current behaviour as a bug, which should be fixed, >so it would be right to post this information to the net at large. Why exactly is this a bug? Why is the deliberate destruction of data ever a better design decision than the preservation of that data? You don't have to use: OPPostmaster You can use OPMAIL-ERRORS and then make 'MAIL-ERRORS' an alias for a shell script which preprocesses the message to provide exactly those parts that you want. It is the behavior of the Sun versions which is a bug. I challenge you to come up with a shell script which restores the deleted data from a bounce message. Please don't assume that everyone uses email the way you do. It might be quite reasonable at some sites for the postmaster to examine the bounced message and refer it to someone. This would be particularly the case for a host where all mail traffic consisted of inquiries of some kind, rather than personal mail. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940