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:

Various autoresponders:

  Precedence: bulk


  Precedence: junk


  Auto-Submitted: auto-replied


  Thread-Topic: AutoResponse


  Subject: AutoResponse -


  X-Amazon-Auto-Reply:


  X-Mailer: KANA Response


  Thread-Topic: AutoResponse


  Auto-Submitted:

Mailing list indicators:

  Precedence: list


  Mailing-List:


  List-ID:


  X-Mailing-List:


  X-ML-Name:


  List-Help:


  List-Unsubscribe:


  List-Post:


  List-Owner:


  List-Archive;

SEE ALSO¶

ezmlm-return(1), qmail-command(8)