Confirm a command from a previous message.
Syntax
CONFIRM cookie
1 – Parameters
cookie
Required cookie string to confirm the command.
2 – Description
The CONFIRM command is used to confirm for MAILSERV the execution
of a command from a previous message.
That is, for security your system administrators might have
configured MAILSERV to require confirmation of certain commands.
If you receive a message from MAILSERV saying that you need to
send a
CONFIRM cookie-string
message back to MAILSERV in order for it to perform some
particular command you previously requested, then if you want
that command executed you must send back exactly
CONFIRM cookie-string
where COOKIE-STRING is the exact string MAILSERV tells you to
send for that command.
Note that you should send a new message back to MAILSERV
containing the required CONFIRM command, rather than simply
resending or bouncing MAILSERV's own message back to MAILSERV (to
ensure that you hear about any errors in processing your CONFIRM
command).
Note that if you receive a message from MAILSERV talking about
confirming a command that you did not send yourself, then that
might mean that someone is attempting masquerade as you in
e-mail and you might want to take this up with your system
administrators.
3 – Error messages
%MAILSERV-F-NOCOOKIE, There is no confirmation-
pending command labelled
There was no command corresponding to such a cookie string
awaiting confirmation. Check that you entered the cookie
correctly.