[ale] .procmail away response

[Jim Kinney]

You are absolutely correct. This is a broadcast announcement to all spam
that gets through of a live account. there is a better process but I don't
have the link available at the moment. It does the precence checking. I'll
see if I can dig it up from my link collection later.

2008/3/25 Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>:

>
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:48 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >
> http://devhen.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/how-to-setup-a-vacation-autoresponder-with-procmail-sendmail/
> >
> > This has a recipie for vacation message if incoming is not marked as
> > spam.
>
>         It still violates the autoresponder BCP dictum of NEVER responding
> to
> any message with precedence value less than 0 (none set or "first-class"
> delivery or equivalent).  It would respond to messages from this list
> (which go out precedence: List) or bulk mail (precendence: Bulk) which
> is a no-no in spite of certain lame major vendors screwing it ip.
>
>        Testing should be done on the numerical value of the precedence.
>  MS
> screwed that up ages ago when the did a string check on "bulk" (which is
> what bounce messages are usually set to) and failed to check for list,
> resulting in Exchange vacation messages spamming mailing lists.
>
>        Standard default table of precedence values from sendmail.cf:
>
> Pfirst-class=0
> Pspecial-delivery=100
> Plist=-30
> Pbulk=-60
> Pjunk=-100
>
>        These are the values in the sendmail.cf file but these are not
> sendmail
> specific.
>
>        Mike
>
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Christopher Fowler
> >         <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> >         > I use procmail extensively to filter all mail on my server
> >         vs in the
> >         >  mail client.  Typically for customers I look at their
> >         domain name and if
> >         >  it matches one I'm looking for I place it in the Customers
> >         folder.  I'm
> >         >  getting ready to fly to Houston and I thought it would be
> >         cool if I
> >         >  could send only Customers an response email that I'm away.
> >          Has anyone
> >         >  done this?  I do not want to do a blanket away because then
> >         you guys
> >         >  will be getting my away email.
> >
> >
> >         man procmailex should provide a vacation example rc, you would
> >         want to
> >         extend that to only consider domains listed in a file.   In
> >         man
> >         procmailex, look for "URGMATCH" to see how you can load
> >         variables into
> >         memory for processing by procmail.
> >
> >         -Jim P.
> >
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