I use these in the majordomo.cf under the global_taboo_headers;
/^subject:\s.*\baway from my mail\b/i
/^subject:\s*Autoreply/i
and this in the global_taboo_body;
/I am out of the office/i
Dan Liston
Stewart Dean wrote:
>
> When one of our internal mailing list arrives at the mailbox of a user
> who is gone/activated the vacation function, everybody on the list gets
> a copy of the vacation message. Thus if 20 faculty members are on
> vacation (and have activated vacation), a MD mailing list sent to the
> faculty members will result in 20 vacation messages being mailed to the
> same list....one mailing = n mailings +1 mailings (the original one),
> where n is the number of mailing list members using vacation.
> Thankfully, this does not endless loop.
>
> What have people done to suppress this?
>
> Ideally, I need some filter to MD itself that would discard anything
> submitted from vacation.
>
> Can this be as simple as using the taboo stuff on the header and
> triggering on 'From: via the vacation program' and 'Subject: away from
> my mail' ? Are there any drawbacks to this?
> On these lists:
> 1) the lists are unmoderated AND
> 2) I want just to dump any messages from vacation, NOT review them.
>
> Thanks in advance for your wisdom(I hope!) and help.
>
> Some more elaborate (and uglier) things I have thought of are:
>
> 1) I see automagic in the archives for 3 years ago, but nothing on
> Jason's current pages and no mention of it in the FAQ. Did it have
> problems? Are people using it?
> 2) I could conceive of doing some with procmail, having its trigger
> string being "via the vacation program"...but it looks like I'd have to
> do something that would affect all users' incoming mail, very
> kludgy/ugly
>
> --
> Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
> Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
> sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
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