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+BOUNCE(5) BOUNCE(5)
+
+<b>NAME</b>
+ bounce - Postfix bounce message template format
+
+<b>SYNOPSIS</b>
+ <b><a href="postconf.5.html#bounce_template_file">bounce_template_file</a> = /etc/postfix/bounce.cf</b>
+
+ <b>postconf -b</b> [<i>template</i><b>_</b><i>file</i>]
+
+<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
+ The Postfix <a href="bounce.8.html"><b>bounce</b>(8)</a> server produces delivery status notification
+ (DSN) messages for undeliverable mail, delayed mail, successful deliv-
+ ery or address verification requests.
+
+ By default, these notifications are generated from built-in templates
+ with message headers and message text. Sites can override the built-in
+ information by specifying a bounce template file with the <b><a href="postconf.5.html#bounce_template_file">bounce_tem</a>-</b>
+ <b><a href="postconf.5.html#bounce_template_file">plate_file</a></b> configuration parameter.
+
+ This document describes the general procedure to create a bounce tem-
+ plate file, followed by the specific details of bounce template for-
+ mats.
+
+<b>GENERAL PROCEDURE</b>
+ To create a customized bounce template file, create a temporary copy of
+ the file <b>/etc/postfix/bounce.cf.default</b> and edit the temporary file.
+
+ To preview the results of $<i>name</i> expansions in the template text, use
+ the command
+
+ <b>postconf -b</b> <i>temporary</i><b>_</b><i>file</i>
+
+ Errors in the template will be reported to the standard error stream
+ and to the syslog daemon.
+
+ While previewing the text, be sure to pay particular attention to the
+ expansion of time value parameters that appear in the delayed mail
+ notification text.
+
+ Once the result is satisfactory, copy the template to the Postfix con-
+ figuration directory and specify in <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a> something like:
+
+ /etc/postfix/<a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a>:
+ <a href="postconf.5.html#bounce_template_file">bounce_template_file</a> = /etc/postfix/bounce.cf
+
+<b>TEMPLATE FILE FORMAT</b>
+ The template file can specify templates for failed mail, delayed mail,
+ successful delivery or for address verification. These templates are
+ named <b>failure_template</b>, <b>delay_template</b>, <b>success_template</b> and <b>ver-</b>
+ <b>ify_template</b>, respectively. You can but do not have to specify all
+ four templates in a bounce template file.
+
+ Each template starts with "<i>template</i><b>_</b><i>name</i> <b>=</b> &lt;&lt;<b>EOF</b>" and ends with a line
+ that contains the word "<b>EOF</b>" only. You can change the word EOF, but you
+ can't enclose it in quotes as with the shell or with Perl (<i>tem-</i>
+ <i>plate</i><b>_</b><i>name</i> <b>=</b> &lt;&lt;<b>'EOF'</b>). Here is an example:
+
+ # The failure template is used for undeliverable mail.
+
+ failure_template = &lt;&lt;EOF
+ Charset: us-ascii
+ From: MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery System)
+ Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
+ Postmaster-Subject: Postmaster Copy: Undelivered Mail
+
+ This is the mail system at host $<a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a>.
+
+ I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
+ be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
+
+ For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
+
+ If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
+ delete your own text from the attached returned message.
+
+ The mail system
+ EOF
+
+ The usage and specification of bounce templates is subject to the fol-
+ lowing restrictions:
+
+ <b>o</b> No special meaning is given to the backslash character or to
+ leading whitespace; these are always taken literally.
+
+ <b>o</b> Inside the &lt;&lt; context, the "$" character is special. To produce
+ a "$" character as output, specify "$$".
+
+ <b>o</b> Outside the &lt;&lt; context, lines beginning with "#" are ignored, as
+ are empty lines, and lines consisting of whitespace only.
+
+ Examples of all templates can be found in the file <b>bounce.cf.default</b> in
+ the Postfix configuration directory.
+
+<b>TEMPLATE HEADER FORMAT</b>
+ The first portion of a bounce template consists of optional template
+ headers. Some become message headers in the delivery status notifica-
+ tion; some control the formatting of that notification. Headers not
+ specified in a template will be left at their default value.
+
+ The following headers are supported:
+
+ <b>Charset:</b>
+ The MIME character set of the template message text. See the
+ "TEMPLATE MESSAGE TEXT FORMAT" description below.
+
+ <b>From:</b> The sender address in the message header of the delivery status
+ notification.
+
+ <b>Subject:</b>
+ The subject in the message header of the delivery status notifi-
+ cation that is returned to the sender.
+
+ <b>Postmaster-Subject:</b>
+ The subject that will be used in Postmaster copies of undeliver-
+ able or delayed mail notifications. These copies are sent under
+ control of the <a href="postconf.5.html#notify_classes">notify_classes</a> configuration parameter.
+
+ The usage and specification of template message headers is subject to
+ the following restrictions:
+
+ <b>o</b> Template message header names can be specified in upper case,
+ lower case or mixed case. Postfix always produces bounce message
+ header labels of the form "<b>From:</b>" and "<b>Subject:</b>".
+
+ <b>o</b> Template message headers must not span multiple lines.
+
+ <b>o</b> Template message headers do not support $parameter expansions.
+
+ <b>o</b> Template message headers must contain ASCII characters only, and
+ must not contain ASCII null characters.
+
+<b>TEMPLATE MESSAGE TEXT FORMAT</b>
+ The second portion of a bounce template consists of message text. As
+ the above example shows, template message text may contain <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a>
+ $parameters. Besides the parameters that are defined in <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a>, the
+ following parameters are treated specially depending on the suffix that
+ is appended to their name.
+
+ <b>delay_warning_time_</b><i>suffix</i>
+ Expands into the value of the <b><a href="postconf.5.html#delay_warning_time">delay_warning_time</a></b> parameter,
+ expressed in the time unit specified by <i>suffix</i>, which is one of
+ <b>seconds</b>, <b>minutes</b>, <b>hours, days</b>, or <b>weeks</b>.
+
+ <b>maximal_queue_lifetime_</b><i>suffix</i>
+ Expands into the value of the <b><a href="postconf.5.html#maximal_queue_lifetime">maximal_queue_lifetime</a></b> parameter,
+ expressed in the time unit specified by <i>suffix</i>. See above under
+ <b><a href="postconf.5.html#delay_warning_time">delay_warning_time</a></b> for possible <i>suffix</i> values.
+
+ <b><a href="postconf.5.html#mydomain">mydomain</a></b>
+ Expands into the value of the <b><a href="postconf.5.html#mydomain">mydomain</a></b> parameter. With "smt-
+ putf8_enable = yes", this replaces ACE labels (xn--mumble) with
+ their UTF-8 equivalent.
+
+ This feature is available in Postfix 3.0.
+
+ <b><a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a></b>
+ Expands into the value of the <b><a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a></b> parameter. With "smt-
+ putf8_enable = yes", this replaces ACE labels (xn--mumble) with
+ their UTF-8 equivalent.
+
+ This feature is available in Postfix 3.0.
+
+ The usage and specification of template message text is subject to the
+ following restrictions:
+
+ <b>o</b> The template message text is not sent in Postmaster copies of
+ delivery status notifications.
+
+ <b>o</b> If the template message text contains non-ASCII characters,
+ Postfix requires that the <b>Charset:</b> template header is updated.
+ Specify an appropriate superset of US-ASCII. A superset is
+ needed because Postfix appends ASCII text after the message tem-
+ plate when it sends a delivery status notification.
+
+<b>SEE ALSO</b>
+ <a href="bounce.8.html">bounce(8)</a>, Postfix delivery status notifications
+ <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters
+
+<b>LICENSE</b>
+ The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.
+
+<b>HISTORY</b>
+ The Postfix bounce template format was originally developed by Nicolas
+ Riendeau.
+
+<b>AUTHOR(S)</b>
+ Wietse Venema
+ IBM T.J. Watson Research
+ P.O. Box 704
+ Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
+
+ Wietse Venema
+ Google, Inc.
+ 111 8th Avenue
+ New York, NY 10011, USA
+
+ BOUNCE(5)
+</pre> </body> </html>