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Sieve Filter: Reject or Discard text return message

807574Oct 31 2007 — edited Feb 11 2020
Hi,

We have the standard/default Comm. Suite 5 package installed on Solaris 10 x86.
I'm trying to figure out a way to bounce/reject a message back to a sender via a filter as follows:

(allof)
Condition 1: Addressed to a certain address, like testme@sun.com.
Condition 2: Extra address(es) in recipient list (in the to: or cc: field).. (This could be done by filtering on the "," character.)
Condition 3: (This part could be, probably should be, done in a
separate filter.) The address testme@sun.com cannot be the in the cc: field.

If above is done:

1.) Message is discarded.
2.) A reject message is sent back to the sender with some text,
like "Rejected due to extra addresses in recipient list", perhaps with
a custom subject line.

(Basically what I'm trying to do here in our I.T. dept., is get our
end-users to send to our call tracking system the proper way. The call
tracking system will auto-create call tickets when e-mail is sent to a
certain address. If an end-user sends to that address and
cc's a bunch of others, the others could/will reply-all and create a
bunch of duplicate call tickets for the same issue, having a great
party with our call tracking system. Currently, I have those
type situations filtered out where it gets forwarded to an alternate
address.)

From what I could find out, "reject text:" or "discard text:" in not
supported/included in Messaging Server's Seive filtering, even as
a system end filter (imta.filter). (Also, I've tired "novacation", but
that seems clunky and I couldn't get that to work out either.)

Am I missing something? Would there be another way to do this?
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