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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/3/25 Michael H. Warfield <<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:48 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://devhen.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/how-to-setup-a-vacation-autoresponder-with-procmail-sendmail/" target="_blank">http://devhen.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/how-to-setup-a-vacation-autoresponder-with-procmail-sendmail/</a><br>
><br>
> This has a recipie for vacation message if incoming is not marked as<br>
> spam.<br>
<br>
</div> It still violates the autoresponder BCP dictum of NEVER responding to<br>
any message with precedence value less than 0 (none set or "first-class"<br>
delivery or equivalent). It would respond to messages from this list<br>
(which go out precedence: List) or bulk mail (precendence: Bulk) which<br>
is a no-no in spite of certain lame major vendors screwing it ip.<br>
<br>
Testing should be done on the numerical value of the precedence. MS<br>
screwed that up ages ago when the did a string check on "bulk" (which is<br>
what bounce messages are usually set to) and failed to check for list,<br>
resulting in Exchange vacation messages spamming mailing lists.<br>
<br>
Standard default table of precedence values from <a href="http://sendmail.cf" target="_blank">sendmail.cf</a>:<br>
<br>
Pfirst-class=0<br>
Pspecial-delivery=100<br>
Plist=-30<br>
Pbulk=-60<br>
Pjunk=-100<br>
<br>
These are the values in the <a href="http://sendmail.cf" target="_blank">sendmail.cf</a> file but these are not sendmail<br>
specific.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jim Popovitch <<a href="mailto:yahoo@jimpop.com">yahoo@jimpop.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Christopher Fowler<br>
> <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I use procmail extensively to filter all mail on my server<br>
> vs in the<br>
> > mail client. Typically for customers I look at their<br>
> domain name and if<br>
> > it matches one I'm looking for I place it in the Customers<br>
> folder. I'm<br>
> > getting ready to fly to Houston and I thought it would be<br>
> cool if I<br>
> > could send only Customers an response email that I'm away.<br>
> Has anyone<br>
> > done this? I do not want to do a blanket away because then<br>
> you guys<br>
> > will be getting my away email.<br>
><br>
><br>
> man procmailex should provide a vacation example rc, you would<br>
> want to<br>
> extend that to only consider domains listed in a file. In<br>
> man<br>
> procmailex, look for "URGMATCH" to see how you can load<br>
> variables into<br>
> memory for processing by procmail.<br>
><br>
> -Jim P.<br>
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