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resend(1)
NAME
  resend - resend messages after evaluation

SYNOPSIS
  resend [-A] [-C config-file] [-I file-list] [-M max-msg-length] [-R] [-a
  passwd] [-d] [-f from-addr] [-h host-name] -l list-name [-n] [-p
  precedence] [-r reply-to] [-s] destination

AVAILABILITY
  Provided with distributions of Majordomo.

DESCRIPTION
  resend is a perl script that is usually used to redirect mail messages to a
  mailing list after evaluating and parsing the headers. Mail is "resent" by
  handing it off to the mailer again with an alternate destination as
  specified by the final operand.

  Any message that resend doesn't like is sent to the list owner (the "-f"
  address, or "<list-name>-owner" if -f isn't used) along with a comment
  indicating what "resend" didn't like about it.  To go ahead and send the
  message, just feed it to resend without the flag that caused it to reject
  it (in other words, if it rejected it because it was too long, omit the "-M
  <>" flag; if it rejected it because it was administrivia, omit the "-s"
  flag).

  If you specify "-a <passwd>" flag, this "approval" password can be used in
  an "Approved: <passwd>" line to override most of the other checks (those
  enabled by "-s", "-M", and so forth).	 The "Approved: <passwd>" line can
  either be one of the mail headers, or the first line of the body of the
  message.  If it is in the headers, the rest of the headers are resent as
  part of the approved message.	 If it is in the body, the current headers
  are discarded in favor of the headers from the original message which
  should follow the "Approved:" line in the body.

  The owner of a mailing list can thus post messages that were initially
  bounced by adding an "Approved: <passwd>" line and resubmitting the
  message.  Any "Approved: <passwd>" line is stripped before the message is
  sent to the mailing list, so that list members won't learn the password.
  If the <passwd> argument to the "-a" flag begins with a "/", it is assumed
  to be a file name from which the actual password is read.

  You can make a list "moderated" by specifying the "-A" flag.	If the "-A"
  flag is set, then any messages not containing a valid "Approved:" line are
  sent to the list owner, rather than the whole list.; the list owner can
  then review the message, add an appropriate "Approved:" line, and resubmit
  them (these last two steps can be done easily with the "approve" command
  that comes with Majordomo).  If you specify the "-A" flag, you must also
  specify the "-a <passwd>" flag, so that resend knows what approval password
  to use.

  If you only want to accept messages from members of a list, you can use the
  "-I <file-list>" flag to do this.  "<file-list>" should be a colon-
  separated list of files in the $listdir directory (specified in the config
  file) that "resend" will check the address in "From:" line of a message
  against.  If the address doesn't show up in one of those files, and the
  message doesn't have a valid "approved" header on it, it will be bounced to
  the list owner.

OPTIONS
  The following options can be used with resend:

  -A	    Approve; enable list moderation by requiring an Approved: header
	    to be present in the message before resending. Messages without
	    an Approved: header will be redirected to the list owner for
	    approval.

  -C config-file
	    Alternate configuration file; tell resend to use the file

  config-file
	    instead of the default list-name.config.

  -I file-list
	    Include; ensure that the message sender (as represented in the
	    From: line of the incoming message) is in one of the file(s)
	    specified in file-list.  file-list may contain multiple colon
	    separated pathnames. Each pathname should point to a file that
	    contains a sendmail-style mailing list.

  [-M max-msg-length]
	    Maximum; Specify the maximum length of the relayed message in
	    octets.

  [-R]	    Delete the "Received:" lines in the incoming message header. This
	    can make the relayed messages considerably shorter at the expense
	    of losing some potentially interesting debugging information.

  [-a passwd_file]
	    Specify the pathname of the file containing the approval password
	    for the list. This password is used to check Approved: headers
	    when relaying messages to lists that are marked as moderated
	    through the -A option above.

  [-d]	    Debug; print what would be done, but don't do it.

  [-f from-addr]
	    Set the From: address to from-addr

  [-h host-name]
	    Set the name of the local host to host-name.  This name will be
	    used in the From: and To: lines when updating the headers.

  -l list-name
	    Specify the name of the mailing list as list-name.	This option
	    is required, as resend uses this name to derive the names of many
	    other files.

  [-n]	    Assign a sequence number to each message as it comes through. The
	    next sequence number is stored in the file lists/list-name.seq.
	    If the string $SEQNUM is found in the $subject-prefix
	    configuration variable, it is replaced with the current sequence
	    number. Thus, a $subject_prefix of "($LIST $SEQNUM)" would render
	    a Subject: line of (list-name sequence-number).

  [-p precedence]
	    Set the Precedence: header to precedence.

  [-r reply-to]
	    Set the Reply-To: header to reply-to.

  [-s]	    Administrivia; Search the message for strings commonly found in
	    administrative messages send to majordomo mailing lists (e.g.
	    subscribe, unsubscribe). If these are found in the first 10 or so
	    lines of the message, the message will be relayed to the list
	    owner instead of being sent on to the mailing list.

OPERANDS
  destination
	    The alias to which to redirect the message if it is a proper list
	    submission.

CONFIGURATION
FILES
  /etc/aliases
  /etc/majordomo.cf
  lists/list-name.config

SEE ALSO
  majordomo(8),approve(1)

AUTHOR
  Majordomo and most of the ancillary perl code was written by Brent Chapman
  <brent@GreatCircle.COM>.  Majordomo is available via anonymous FTP from
  FTP.GreatCircle.COM, in the directory pub/majordomo.	This man page was
  written by Shane McCarron <ahby@themacs.com>.

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