Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
Auto-responders have the potential to be evil if the person creating them doesn't think through all the possibilities. The procmail manpages had some good examples of how to avoid sending vacation responses to mailing lists and system/daemon/mailer notices; it's a shame nobody really pays attention to that. (I'm looking squarely at you, Microsoft Exchange/Outlook developers.)
And qmail. I get bounces to admin daily from customer accounts that have enabled the autoresponder. The responder responds to spam that gets through the filter (most of it, since a few important customers complained about the spam and virus filters and we had to disable them) and of course most spam has a forged address, so I get to see it every time.
To me, if your e-mail is so important that you *need* an autoresponder, then you need to get a life.
PGA -- Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE Owner, Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting Services www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
