ezmlm-weed

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NAME

ezmlm-weed - weed out useless messages

SYNOPSIS

ezmlm-weed

DESCRIPTION

ezmlm-weed reads a mail message from its standard input. If it recognizes the message as an MTA warning message or success message, or as a message with precedence ``bulk'' or ``junk'' as generated by vacation autoresponders, it exits 99; this will cause qmail-alias to skip all further delivery instructions if ezmlm-weed is run from a .qmail file. If the message seems innocent, ezmlm-weed exits 0. ezmlm-weed exits 111 if it runs out of memory.

RECOGNIZED FORMATS

Generic success message, recommended for all MTAs:

Subject: success notice

Generic warning message, recommended for all MTAs:

Subject: deferral notice

Delivery-status notification (DSN, rfc1891). All DSN messages with ``Action'' other than ``failed'':

Content-type: multipart/report

Warning message from sendmail, MIME form:

   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem

   Subject: Warning

   Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout)

   This is a MIME-encapsulated message

   THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY

Non-MIME form:

   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem

   Subject: Warning

   Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout)

   THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY

Warning message from older version of sendmail:

   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem

   Subject: Returned mail: warning

   This is a MIME-encapsulated message

   THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY

Non-MIME form:

   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem

   Subject: Returned mail: warning

   THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY

Notification messages from Novell Groupwise:

  Subject: Message status - delivered

  Subject: Message status - opened

  Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: