[170810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Wed Apr 9 18:49:03 2014
Date: 9 Apr 2014 16:47:47 -0600
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZM1BgY+1_=-1J08udtsV1PX_7PNhtSJuMmJ+7=YM9NFw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> 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?
The scriptable mail delivery agent that most Unix-ish systems use to sort
mail at delivery time. It's a marvel of robust programming, no updates
since 2001 but still works great.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=procmail&l=1
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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