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.TH POSTCLIP 1L
\"
\" mmuegel
\" /usr/local/ustart/src/mail-tools/dist/foo/man/postclip.1,v 1.1 1993/07/28 08:08:25 mmuegel Exp
\"
.ds mp \fBpostclip\fR
.SH NAME
\*(mp - send only the headers to Postmaster
.SH SYNOPSIS
\*(mp [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fIto\fR ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\*(mp will forward non-delivery reports to a postmaster after deleting the body
of the message. This keeps bounced mail private and helps to avoid disk space problems. \*(mp tries its best to keep as much of the header trail as possible.
Hopefully only the original body of the message will be filtered. Only messages
that have a subject that begins with 'Returned mail:' are filtered. This
ensures that other mail is not accidently mucked with. Finally, note that
\fBsendmail\fR is used to deliver the message after it has been (possibly)
filtered. All of the original headers will remain intact.
.sp 1
You can use this with any \fBsendmail\fR by modifying the Postmaster alias.
If you use IDA \fBsendmail\fR you could add the following to <machine>.m4:
.sp 1
.RS
define(POSTMASTERBOUNCE, mailer-errors)
.RE
.sp 1
In the aliases file, add a line similar to the following:
.sp 1
.RS
mailer-errors: "|/usr/local/bin/postclip postmaster"
.RE
.SH OPTIONS
.IP \fB-v\fR
Be verbose about delivery. Probably only useful when debugging \*(mp.
.IP \fIto\fR
A list of one or more e-mail ids to send the modified
Postmaster messages to. If none are specified postmaster
is used.
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Michael S. Muegel (mmuegel@mot.com)
UNIX Applications Startup Group
Corporate Information Office, Schaumburg, IL
Motorola, Inc.
.fi
.SH CREDITS
The original idea to filter Postmaster mail was taken from a script by
Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org>.
.SH COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright 1992, Motorola, Inc.
.sp 1
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute without charge this
software, documentation, etc. is granted, provided that this
comment and the author's name is retained. The author nor Motorola assume any
responsibility for problems resulting from the use of this software.
.SH SEE ALSO
.nf
\fBsendmail(8)\fR
.fi
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