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From: argv%eureka@Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How do you "kill" a message in uucp?
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Date: 9 Aug 89 18:13:01 GMT
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In article <312@galadriel.bt.co.uk> pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) writes:
> From article <119830@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by argv%eureka@Sun.COM (Dan Heller):
> > 
> > I opted for the last one.  Perhaps it would be nice to set up an automation
> > script that can do this automatically (of course, authentication would be
> > highly desired :-).  Just email to "uukill@offending.site" and the subject
> > would contain the job to kill..  just an idea.

> How would you specify the message that you wanted to kill ? And if you
> could then how would you stop other people blatting your outgoing mail ?

Uucp just sent you a message saying, "to kill the mail, issue the command
uustat -k..."  Well, you simply mail that same job number to the uustat
server.  If the job is still queued, it has the envelope for the message
going out -- just check that address against yours and verify that they
are the same.  After all, uucp successfully sent a message back to the
originating site of the mail that is queued, it should certainly be able
to check that the address is contructed to send you that mail matches the
the return address on the mail you just sent it.

Further, the uustat server could also reply to queries about what's in its
queue -- that way, you could check on things that are outgoing from that site.

Again, this "feature" would only work if the uustat server successfully
verified that the requestor's address matched the return address of the
originating author.  Short of that, the person must mail the postmaster
at that site and ask that person to do it manually.


dan 
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