[cobalt-users] See and raise... (Was: Re:Is this what we need, Charlie?)

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:36 PM -0400 9/6/02, Parker Morse is rumored to have typed:

> You can solve this problem by adding the following lines to your 
> .procmailrc:

   I like your solutions...but I have a somewhat meaner one:

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* ^X-BeenThere: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
* ^From:.*donovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| (echo "You are an idiot...your autoresponder is responding to EVERY EMAIL it"; \
echo "receives, including mailing list postings. Fix it. NOW."; echo; \
echo "----------------------------------------"; echo; cat -) | \
formail -A "X-Loop: $LOGNAME" \
-A "Subject: FIX YOUR AUTORESPONDER!" \
-A "From: postmaster@<<YOUR DOMAIN HERE>>" \
-A "To: donovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" \
-A "Cc: hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxx" \
-A "Bcc: postmaster@<<YOUR DOMAIN HERE>>" | \
$SENDMAIL -t -oi


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* ^From:.*donovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
/dev/null
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   This will auto-respond to anything coming through the mailing list server,
but will dump anything coming to you directly (since from the looks of
things, every time you forward one, the idiot's autoresponder will send you
an autoresponse).

   (Also note we're looking for his address in the From: header field; if
you look anywhere, you'll also dump _this_ message since his address is in
it. Just to make sure, I'll send a personal copy with his domain name
munged.)

         Charlie