On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:35:56PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> To continue my periodic rant, autoreplies should be obey the following
> rules:-
I use this:
vacation_reply:
driver = autoreply
file = ${home}/.vacation.msg
file_expand
log = ${home}/.vacation.log
once = ${home}/.vacation.db
once_repeat = 7d
from = Autoreply System <mailer-daemon@???>
to = "$sender_address"
subject = ${if def:h_Subject: {Re: ${quote:${escape:${length_50:$h_Subject:}}} (autoreply)} {I am on vacation} }
text = "\
Dear $h_from\n\n\
This is an automatic reply. Feel free to send additional\n\
mail, as only this one notice will be generated. The following\n\
is a prerecorded message, sent for ${local_part}@???:\n\
====================================================\n\n\
"
user_vacation:
driver = localuser
require_files = ${local_part}:${home}/.vacation.msg
# do not reply to errors or lists
senders = " ! ^.*-request@.*:\
! ^owner-.*@.*:\
! ^postmaster@.*:\
! ^listmaster@.*:\
! ^mailer-daemon@.*\
! ^root@.*"
# do not reply to errors and bounces or lists
condition = "${if or {{match {$h_precedence:} {(?i)junk|bulk|list}} \
{eq {$sender_address} {}}} {no} {yes}}"
transport = vacation_reply
unseen
user = ${local_part}
no_expn
no_verify
... and it obeys the following rules:
> - reply to the envelope sender address
> - not reply to bounce message (envelope sender = <>
> or postmaster/mailer-daemon)
> - not reply to list mail (see Precedence or list headers)
> - not reply to autoreplies (use headers to detect this)
> - send autoreplies as bounce messages (sender = <>)
> - rate limit autoreplies - eg one per address per week
But not this one (AFAIK):
> - reply only to personal mail (ie mention one of your addresses in
> to/cc)
Can I do this with exim?
> Strangely you can do all of this with the exim autoreply stuff.
> Alternatives to following these rules are me getting mad - I normally
> unsubscribe, in one case where it kept sending stuff and I couldn't
> identify where from I just blackholed the sending hosts.
Same here.
I've updated
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/autoresponders.txt with some
of your comments.
Thanks,
Marc
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