I use procmail and user autoresponders for vacations. HOWEVER, I have it
written so it only sends ONE response EVER. The procmail recipe saves each
email address it sends a response to in a file and it checks that file
everytime an email comes in.
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Todd Lyons wrote:
Mogenns Gilmour wanted us to know:
>Hi,
>
>We seem to have an increase of mail looping with the majordomo@domain.com address from bad vacation mail autoresponder systems after someone subscribes to a mailing list. Is there a way to disable the majordomo help message when it's not a valid majordomo command?
Add something similar to your listname.config:
message_headers << END
X-BeenThere: $LIST@cerritoslug.org
X-Loop: $LIST@cerritoslug.org
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@cerritoslug.org?body=info%20$LIST>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@cerritoslug.org?body=unsubscribe%20$LIST>
List-Archive: <http://www.cerritoslug.org/mailarchives/>
END
Then edit your majordomo.cf in the $global_taboo_headers definition and
add this:
/^X-BeenThere:/i
/^X-Majordomo-Version:/i
My entire $global_taboo_headers looks like this:
$global_taboo_headers = <<'END';
/^subject: ndn: /i
/^subject:\s*RCPT:/i
/^subject:\s*Delivery Confirmation\b/i
/^subject:\s*NON-DELIVERY of:/i
/^subject:\s*Undeliverable Message\b/i
/^subject:\s*Receipt Confirmation\b/i
/^subject:\s*Failed mail\b/i
/^subject:\s*Returned mail\b/i
/^subject:\s*unable to deliver mail\b/i
/^subject:\s.*\baway from my mail\b/i
/^subject:\s*Autoreply/i
/^X-BeenThere:/i
/^X-Majordomo-Version:/i
END
It's only a small step in getting rid of it. The biggest step is
convincing people that auto-responders are evil.
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