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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?


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