From: Chris Dos (chrischrisdos.com)
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 13:43:04 CDT

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Chris Dos
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Chris Dos wrote:
> Chris Dos wrote:
>> Noel Jones wrote:
>>>> Okay, since the e-mail never finishes sending because the user is
>>>> unknown on the other end and it is rejected
>>>> right away, is there another way to do this.
>>>>
>>>> The whole point of this exercise for me is to just intercept a bounce
>>>> back and process it internally instead
>>>> of bouncing it back to the person that originally sent the mail. The
>>>> best way seems to be to use VERP. Is
>>>> there something I'm missing or a different way to go about doing
>>>> this. Maybe pass all initial bounces through
>>>> procmail or something to that affect?
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>> Internally generated bounces don't go through procmail or anything,
>>> they're just delivered to the original sender address.
>>>
>>> Maybe it would be better if you describe the actual problem you're
>>> trying to solve rather than asking how to implement a possible solution.
>>>
>>> -- Noel Jones
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to intercept all hard bounced back e-mail and send it to a script/program for processing
>> internally. I wish to prevent all notification of bounces to the person that sent the e-mail.
>>
>> I had an idea, and I'm trying to make it work. Can I just change the master.cf and change bounce to go to a
>> pipe? Like this:
>> bounce unix - - n - 0 pipe
>> flags=DORhu user=root argv=/etc/postfix/dump_bounce.sh
>>
>> I keep getting this error though:
>> postfix/pipe[9736]: fatal: service bounce requires privileged operation
>>
>> I was trying different users besides root, but even root does not work.
>>
>> Chris
>>
> I figured out that problem by adding a "n" to the unpriv column.
>
> Chris
>

Though now I'm getting this error after sending bounce to pipe:
Mar 20 12:41:54 mail-dr postfix/pipe[10163]: warning: unexpected attribute nrequest from bounce socket
(expecting: flags)
Mar 20 12:41:54 mail-dr postfix/pipe[10163]: warning: deliver_request_get: error receiving common attributes
Mar 20 12:41:54 mail-dr postfix/qmgr[10151]: 9F2AF28E134: removed

        Chris

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