Sendmail question

2010-08-10 Thread JB
Terry Polzin wowway.com> writes: > > Is there a way to configure sendmail NOT to send messages with empty > bodies? > Hi, How about using a proxy ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP_proxy ... When SMTP proxies are placed on the outgoing network, they typically are used to intercept all SMTP co

Re: Sendmail question

2010-08-09 Thread Terry Polzin
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:26 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Terry Polzin writes: > > Is there a way to configure sendmail NOT to send messages with empty > > bodies? > > Sendmail is an MTA. It isn't a good idea for the MTA to second guess > intentions. Yes, some other OS's might do things

Re: Sendmail question

2010-08-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > Is there a way to configure sendmail NOT to send messages with empty > bodies? > > I have cron jobs that I want stderr and stdout to be mailed to users IF > there is any stderr or stdout from the script.  But if there are no > messages, I (root

Re: Sendmail question

2010-08-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Terry Polzin writes: > Is there a way to configure sendmail NOT to send messages with empty > bodies? Sendmail is an MTA. It isn't a good idea for the MTA to second guess intentions. Yes, some other OS's might do things that way, but that isn't the un*x way. If you have a program that sometime

Sendmail question

2010-08-09 Thread Terry Polzin
Is there a way to configure sendmail NOT to send messages with empty bodies? I have cron jobs that I want stderr and stdout to be mailed to users IF there is any stderr or stdout from the script. But if there are no messages, I (root) receive a "null body" error message and the users receive a bl