Sorry about all those messages congratulating you for your skill at
sending e-mail. My autoresponder seems to have been subscribed at 2:00
this morning, I fixed it as soon as I came in about 11:00.
I have been running an autoresponder for readers of Dummies books for
several years without much trouble. In the past couple of months, people
have started to subscribe my autoresponder to various mailing lists, with
predictably unpleasant results. I do have mail loop detection code in
place (it works, too, you wouldn't believe how many domains have
postmaster addresses that bounce) but there's enough variation in the
headers that different mailing list managers use that it's really hard to
guess in advance how to identify them all.
Autoresponders *should* GREP for a "Precedence:" line and if something
like "bulk", "junk", or "list" is in there, there should be no
autoresponse FYI. :^)
# Stick this in your autoresponder's PROCMAILRC near (at) the beginning.
:0
* ^FROM_DAEMON
$DEFAULT
:0
* ^FROM_MAILER
$DEFAULT
A PROCMAIL related question: I was reading the PROCMAILRC MAN page and
was wondering -- If I stick in a:
:0
* ^FROM_DAEMON
$DEFAULT
do I need to stick a:
:0
* ^FROM_MAILER
$DEFAULT
after it? I mean is there anything that "FROM_MAILER" would catch that
"FROM_DAEMON" wouldn't? From analyzing the REGEXP of both, it doesn't
appear to.
Lates!
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Tim <bodysurf(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>
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