Blocking Delivery Status Notifications?

Peter Peters P.G.M.Peters at civ.utwente.nl
Fri Aug 30 12:12:37 IST 2002


On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:48:49 +0200, you wrote:

>I am using a linux box which is connected to the internet as a relay
>to/from an Exchange 2000 server.
>
>I would like to completely disable (block) all outgoing DSN (Read Receipt
>and DSN messages (your message has been successfully delivered to blah
>blah).

This is actually a sendmail question. I would advise to check the
newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail.

>Is there a way to reset the flags on the incoming e-mail to prevent
>Exchange from sending these messages?

True DSN is handled in the envelop session (part of RCPT TO:). If you
configure sendmail not to support DSN it shouldn't get past the sendmail
server.

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Peter Peters
senior netwerkbeheerder,  Centrum voor Informatievoorziening,
Universiteit Twente,   Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: +31 53 489 2301, fax:+31 53 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ



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