[nos-bbs] JNOS return to sender

John Kristian jmkristian at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 13:12:12 EDT 2022


Yes, to implement this JNOS would have to receive a message, parse its 
headers and then send a reply.

It's starting to sound like this would require a change to the JNOS 
source code. No one has suggested a solution using only configuration 
changes.

-- John Kristian W6JMK

On 10/28/2022 9:46 AM, maiko at pcsinternet.ca wrote:
> ... There is just NO way to find out who this came from at the point
> where we decide to accept or refuse a message; as far as any FBB
> forwarding is concerned that is. We would have to accept the msg
> first, then parse it's headers, then reject it afterwards.
>
> So the interesting exercise then becomes SMTP side. I know the
> SMTP side has refuse code, so perhaps it still can be done, but
> we would have to accept the message from FBB first, then reject
> it on delivery type of thing. Never done that before, but ...
>
> Maiko / VE4KLM
>
> On 2022-10-27 18:06, John Kristian wrote:
>> I would want the return message sent to the value of the original
>> message's 'Return-Path' header, or if there is none, the 'From'
>> header.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:12:39 -0500
>> From:maiko at pcsinternet.ca
>> Message-ID:<74df2731c23a37ba254b430e627b17ff at pcsinternet.ca>
>>
>> ... how should I identify the 'sender', the BBS sending it, would it
>> go to sysop at bbs, or what mail header field did you have in mind ?



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