9 Apr
2014
9 Apr
'14
10:47 p.m.
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@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly