Randy Bush wrote ...
>
>how does this prevent responding to the person who sends email to a
>mailing list to which you subscribe? i believe using $return_path as
>opposed to $sender_address will help. but i think one really wants
>to prevent response when the $return_path has 'owner' as a substring
>and other cruft.
>
>i am still watching for a very conservative vacation recipe.
http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html FAQ Q0431 and Q9813 and
http://www.exim.org/config.samples/C019 have some pointers.
Maybe there ought to be something more explicit in the FAQ/examples?
Anyway, here's our current one - and, (having incurred the frank
opinion of no less than the exim list manager once already on this
score for getting it wrong myself), I am very open to suggestions for
improvement :)
######################################################################
## autoreply/vacation transport
uservacation:
driver = autoreply
user = ${local_part}
once = ${home}/vacation-once
file = ${home}/vacation.txt
log = ${home}/vacation.log
return_message = true
text = "\
------ ------\n\n\
This message was automatically generated by email software\n\
The delivery of your message has not been affected.\n\n\
------ ------\n\n"
to = "${sender_address}"
subject = "${if def:h_Subject: {Autoreply: $h_Subject:} {I am on vacation}}"
##
######################################################################
## This director handles the automatic return of a vacation message
## vacation director....##
uservacation:
driver = localuser
transport = uservacation
require_files = ${home}/vacation.txt
# do not reply to errors or lists
senders = "! ^.*-request@.*:\
! ^owner-.*@.*:\
! ^postmaster@.*:\
! ^listmaster@.*:\
! ^mailer-daemon@.*"
# do not reply to errors and bounces or lists
condition = "${if or {{match {$h_precedence:} {(?i)junk|bulk|list}} \
{eq {$sender_address} {}}} {no} {yes}}"
# carry on checking regardless of the outcome of this director...
unseen
no_expn
no_verify
user = ${local_part}
######################################################################
HTH
Ken
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# Ken Bailey, Computer Section, # Email: K.Bailey@??? #
# The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, # Tel: +44 (0)208 332 5729 #
# Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK # Fax: +44 (0)208 332 5736 #
--
# Ken Bailey, Computer Section, # Email: K.Bailey@??? #
# The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, # Tel: +44 (0)208 332 5729 #
# Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK # Fax: +44 (0)208 332 5736 #
