[170808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Apr 9 18:43:09 2014
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1404091624250.2293@joyce.lan>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:42:45 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:27 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>> The most "sane" out-of-mind response should only be sent *if* the
>>> out-of-mind person is named explicitly as a recipient in the RFC822
>>> To: header. Anything To: somelist@somehost does not qualify :)
>
>
> This highly effective trick was in the procmail example vacation script in
> 1991, and doubtless goes back much farther than that. It's a little
> dismaying to hear that there are still people writing autoresponders who
> don't know about it.
what is procmail?
