Marc David Bumble writes on 9 July 1996 at 22:55:48
recipes have :0 instead of :# where # is some number. My formula
a eaiser-to-use syntax that was added quite some time ago. Start
every line with "* " and use :0 - you don't have to count the
conditions.
:1 h c
^Subject:.*treply
| ($FORMAIL -rk -p "> " -I "X-Replier: Automated response" \
-i "From: bumble(_at_)cse(_dot_)psu(_dot_)edu" \
-i "Subject:automated response test"; \
cat $HOME/Mail/reply; \
echo " "; \
cat $HOME/.signature) | $SENDMAIL -t
assuming your current condtion of "^Subject:.*treply" is just for
testing, you probably want to make some changes before putting this
into produciton use.
* There is little reason to quote the entire mail message back,
this will just waste bandwidth; if you really want to
quote something back, limit it to just the headers which will be
sufficient for diagnosing any mail problems.
* you also don't want to even try to send a auto-repsonse back to
other programs or mailer daemons, this is a good way to start a mail
loop.
* also, if you're doing email correspondence with someone, you
don't need an auto-reponse message every time.
That said, you could do something along the lines of
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# a name that should be unique throughout the entire Internet, since
# our FQDN is unique and user names are unique within our domain.
# Could tack on some random string too. This is primarily used for
# generating X-Loop: headers.
FQDN=eu.bristol.com
UNIQUE_NAME="<${LOGNAME}(_at_)${FQDN}>"
# all the different ways I can get mail - this is before the '@'
ME_REGEXP=(dan|DanS|Dan\.Smith|dan_smith|dsmith|j_daniel_smith|J\.Daniel\.Smith)
# subject lines from other vacation programs
VACA_SUBJECT="^Subject: .*(\[(ack(nowledge?ment)?|on vacation)\]|\
auto(matic)[- ]reply|away from mail|out of town|can ?not (reply|answer)|\
(on |via )vacation( program)?)"
#####
##### an automatic reply
##### - sent to me (ignore mailing lists/aliases)
##### - skip program mailers
##### - skip low priority mail
##### - prevent loops
##### - In-Reply-To/References: in case someone replies to
##### something I posted to a mailing list (add Newsgroups:?)
##### - Be nice and look for a "reply" Subject: too (but NOT a FWD:
##### subject - people need to learn to "reply" and not "forward"
##### responses)
#####
:0c
* $^TO${ME_REGEXP}
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^Precedence: ?(bulk|list|junk)
* $!^X-Loop: ${UNIQUE_NAME}
* !^(In-Reply-To|References|Subject: ?Re(\[[0-9]+\]])?):
* $!${VACA_SUBJECT}
{
:0f
| formail -rt -I "Precedence: junk" -A "X-Loop: ${UNIQUE_NAME}" \
-I "X-Replier: Automated Response" \
-I "Subject: automated response test"
:0bf
| (cat ${HOME}/Mail/reply ;\
echo "" ;\
cat ${HOME}/.signature )
:0
! -oi -t
}
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Dan
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