Blocking Delivery Status Notifications?

[Julian Field]

Okay,

They all seem to be "multipart/report" MIME messages. Do you want to remove
the report, replacing it with a warning message of some sort? Or do you
want to delete the message entirely?

Should be easy enough to detect in SweepContent.pm. It's just a matter of
getting the handling code right.

At 11:07 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>Hello Julian,
>
>Attached I send you a small tar file with some DSN notifications that
>Exchange generates.
>
>Read/Not read receipts I was able to find in df/qf pairs but the 'You
>message has been succesfully delivered to' messages I couldn't find in a
>df/qf pair amongst all the files. I have encluded an example from such a
>message which was snatched from the internal MS Exchange queue which
>should give you an idea. As you can see Exchange happily reports all the
>people that are put on copy by the Exchange server but to whom the sender
>of the mail never intended to send the mail to.
>
>Sorry I couldn't find a df/qf pair for this message, if you need it I
>will continue to look for it.
>
>Please do not bounce the DSN's to the mailing list :)
>
>Thanks and best regards,
>Remco
>
>On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > At 13:09 18/10/2002, you wrote:
> > >Seriously though, I think there must be more people out there using
> > >Exchange and the reasons to block these stupid DSN confirmations are
> > >obvious.
> >
> > Can you send me a few of these Exchange DSN confirmations so I can see if
> > there's an easy way to catch them? Preferably the df/qf pairs out of a
> mail
> > server en route, that gives me a lot more info than just the message with
> > its headers.
> >

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