OT: Sendmail & Vacation Auto-Responder

[Furnish, Trever G]

Trouble?  Funny - the procmailex (procmail examples) manual page contains a
procmail recipe to do exactly that. :-)

But don't use either - just tell the morons no.  No autoresponders, ever.
Assuming that doesn't work, man procmailex and search for vacation.

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Trever

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Thomas [mailto:lists at STHOMAS.NET]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:26 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail & Vacation Auto-Responder


On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:02:46PM -0700, Nathan Johanson is rumored to have
said:
>
> Question: Which option is the most secure and least obtrusive? I'm
> leaning toward the Sendmail vacation program, but it doesn't look like
> RedHat includes it in their Sendmail RPM distribution (oddly enough). It

Check here:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=vacation

I'd go with vacation, as it keeps a db of addresses it's replied to and
won't send the reply to the same person twice. You could do that with
procmail, but why would you want to go through the trouble?


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