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Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:42:45 -0400
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?
Current thread:
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage, (continued)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage John Levine (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage William Herrin (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage Ted Hatfield (Apr 09)
- Re: hack #2 for Yahoo DMARC breakage John R. Levine (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage Jeff Kell (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage Jim Popovitch (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage bmanning (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage Jeff Kell (Apr 09)
- Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage John R. Levine (Apr 09)
- Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage Christopher Morrow (Apr 09)
- Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage George Michaelson (Apr 09)
- Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage Dave Crocker (Apr 09)
- Re: procmail, was autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage John R. Levine (Apr 09)
- Re: procmail, was autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage George Michaelson (Apr 09)
- Re: procmail, was autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage Jack Bates (Apr 10)
- Re: procmail, was autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage Miles Fidelman (Apr 10)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage John Levine (Apr 09)
- Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage John R. Levine (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage William Herrin (Apr 09)
- Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage Jim Popovitch (Apr 09)
- Re: autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage John R. Levine (Apr 09)