Re: [cobalt-users] Re:How to Forward email to /dev/null

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Charlie Summers" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But vacation _or_ a procmail solution will give you major headaches down
> the road, since the autoresponder will be responding to spam messages,
which
> will bounce, which will loop, which means you have to have loop
protection,
> which means...which means...which means...

Charlier, I like your solution better, but it's not hard to handle looping
in procmail.  procmail doesn't give headaches, it prevents them!  Just add
something like the following in .procmailrc:

MY_XLOOP="X-Loop: pretty_much_anything"

then a simple recipe that sends incomng mail to /dev/null if that header is
matched and sends back the contents of a text file otherwise.  A few minutes
on google will show those interested the way.  Google is your friend.
procmail can be your friend too.  :P

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