[170809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Michaelson)
Wed Apr 9 18:46:19 2014
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZM1BgY+1_=-1J08udtsV1PX_7PNhtSJuMmJ+7=YM9NFw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:45:57 +1000
From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
procmail is a rewrite of MMDF mailfilter. badly.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com
> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
