[ale] .procmail away response

[Jim Popovitch]

That's why I mentioned URGMATCH in my earlier response.   Chris can
use that to read in a name of Customer domains that he wishes to
respond to (as he indicated in his original post).  That way his
customers would be notified, but not ALE, etc.

-Jim P.

2008/3/25 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>:
> 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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