[ale] .procmail away response

[Michael H. Warfield]

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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