On 4/2/04 at 12:51, Neil Herber wrote:
> The Tango scripts create email files and drop them into the SIMS
> submitted folder. SIMS then dutifully sends the mail. Because the
> mail is being sent "by a robot" and I don't want to get replies, I
> created a SIMS account called "blackhole" that was set to simply
> discard mail. The Tango mail is then set to come FROM:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Evidently some people WERE replying and then they got mad because I
> wasn't answering. I couldn't, because their reply had been swallowed
> by the black hole (as intended). So, clever lad, I changed the source
> to FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED], a non-existent account,
> expecting that replies would bounce with "unknown user". To my
> surprise, SIMS refused to SEND the mail, presumably because the FROM
> account did not exist. Is there no way to send mail *via the
> submitted folder* that comes from nowhere?
Not sure what's going on there, but that doesn't sound right. SIMS doesn't
check whether a sender's account exists for incoming SMTP messages and I'd
be surprised if it behaved differently for submitted text files.
> Is there another more elegant solution for sending out mail from nobody?
If you want to simply bounce mail sent to 'blackhole', don't create a real
account for it and add a line to your router:
<blackhole> = error
If you want (need?) to have a real account, keep the 'blackhole' account
and continue to have it discard incoming mail. Enable 'Send Auto-Replies'
for the account with some simple message text explaining that nobody reads
mail sent to it so please don't bother. This might be the best solution
from the standpoint of not pissing off people replying to your
Tango-generated messages because you can give them a politely worded
explanation rather than simply bouncing their messages as if they were
spam.
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Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.globalhomes.com/>
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