Re: Disabling "Status of lp request" mails

From: Greg Andrews (gerg_at_panix.com)
Date: 05/29/03 

Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 17:52:32 +0000 (UTC)

Roger Williams <R.Williams@read.the.sig> writes:
>gerg@panix.com (Greg Andrews) wrote:
>>
>>Either your print server's MTA is attaching your domain to the
>>hostname incorrectly, or the host submitting the print jobs
>>is providing the wrong hostname info. Either way, it's something
>>you can fix in modern MTAs like Sendmail.
>
>Yes, fine, but I don't want to futz around with sendmail configs on our
>print servers to blackhole attempted replies from lpsched to print jobs
>submitted from hosts and usernames that can't be mailed to. Those host and
>usernames are correct - they just happen to exist on some Netware servers
>and the users are Windows users.
>

So you're saying the usernames and hostnames are valid. Why, then,
doesn't e-mail to those work properly?

>
>I'd just like to be able to tell lpsched not to send the mail in the first
>place - which it seems is not an option.
>

No, that's one of the things that isn't configurable in the SVR4 print
system (and Solaris didn't change it).

>
>Generally, I find that people can tell from the paper in the output tray
>(or the large roll at the foot of the plotter) whether or not their job
>printed successfully :-)
>

But not *why* it failed, which is the whole reason for the e-mail
message.

The bottom line is that lpsched can't be told to not send e-mail to
the user when printing the job fails. Your next option is to intercept
the messages in the e-mail system. Whether that's on the print server,
or on the mail servers that receive the messages from the print server,
is up to you.

  -Greg 

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