autoresponding to Yahoo DMARC breakage

John R. Levine johnl at iecc.com
Wed Apr 9 22:47:47 UTC 2014


>> 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 at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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