Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars(_at_)bu(_dot_)edu> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:24:08 -0400 (EDT)
steffi2(_at_)dgs(_dot_)dgsys(_dot_)com (Robert
Nicholson) wrote:
ie. if I mail somebody they should be automatically approved since I
don't want to piss them off with the filter.
If you use mh to send mail, the answer is trivial -- mh already has
hooks for processing outgoing mail, so you could insert procmail
somewhere into the chain and have it automatically add any destination
address to your 'accepted' list of addresses. This may even have been
addressed on this list sometime in the past month or so.
How much time on this list goes to telling people better ways to
foward mail from account A to account B? Merely because you are
mailling something to address A does not mean that the intended
recipient will be reading it from account A. I use a differnt
email address for each maillist I subscribe to, for my normal
usenet posts, for automated usenet posts, for administative
usenet posts (I moderate a newsgroup), and for regular email.
And that is just for *sending* stuff. I have a whole bunch more
for receiving things, mostly used in my webpages.
Procmail helps me keep all this stuff sorted out properly, and
allows me to apply different levels of spam checking to different
addresses. None of my tests delete mail[1], none of my tests
work on "blessed" or "damned" addresses, none of my tests trigger
autoresponses saying "You left <open sesame> out of the subject,
please try again." All of those things are, IMHO, either
unreliable or rude. I deal with people of all levels of
competance, including some with serious spelling problems, etc.
I cannot count on the people sending me legitimate mail to
do anything more than hit "reply". I think it is unwise for
other people to make such assumptions about those they may
have or want to deal with in the future by email.
If you send me mail, the only thing you can count on being
preserved in my reply is the subject unless you make specific
mention in the body of what must be done. I might get annoyed
if I can't just hit "reply" in my MUA to respond, however.
[1] Well, I do have one that sends autoreplies to any mail whos
body doesn't match /.../, but there is not much there to be
deleted anyway)
Elijah
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