PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition
PMDF-USR-VMS-6.0

Confirm a command from a previous message.

Syntax

CONFIRM cookie

PARAMETERS

cookie

Required cookie string to confirm the command.

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 may 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 wish 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 may mean that someone is attempting masquerade as you in e-mail and you may wish to take this up with your system administrators.

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.