9 Apr
2014
9 Apr
'14
6:42 p.m.
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?