Name
-R
Synopsis
The -R
command-line
switch tells sendmail to include the DSN RET
command with an ESMTP MAIL command:
MAIL From:<you@your.host> RET=full MAIL From:<you@your.host> RET=hdrs
The RET command requests the receiving site to (or not to) include a
copy of the original message body in the bounced mail notification.
RET=full
requests that both headers and the
message body be returned. RET=hdrs
requests that
only headers be returned. The RET= command affects the receiving site
only if it agrees to handle the DSN extension to ESMTP. In the
absence of RET or remote DSN support, the receiving site is free to
return the message body if it so desires.
For local mail, sendmail uses this
-R
command-line switch to determine how it will
handle local bounces. Normally, sendmail
includes everything (full
) in a locally generated
bounce. By using hdrs
you can restrict local
bounces to only the header portions of the original message.
The RET, and hence this -R
command-line switch, is
useful in two circumstances:
For users sending email, this should be set to
full
so that any bounced mail will include the original message body. This helps to reduce the need for users to archive their outgoing mail.For mailing-list mailings or other batched broadcast messages, this should be set to
hdrs
so that only the header portion of the bounced message will be returned.
The form of the -R
command-line switch looks like
this:
-R arg
Space between the -R
and its argument is optional.
The arg must be present ...
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