Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:50:48 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: mailbot wars Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970202214405.11759A-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>
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I was fiddling with creating a mail autoresponder and can't see how to solve a problem. I was using the .forward mechanism to pipe email into a perl script and autorespond to the sender. It works fine, but what happens if I receive email from a person running an autoresponder themselves? Then my mailbot emails a confirmation to them, their mailbot responds to me, mine to theirs, and all hell breaks loose. Is there any way to avoid this situation? I thought of putting a particular string in the response subject, then look for it and don't respond to email that contains it. However, an autoresponder could respond back to me with a generic subject, then all hell breaks loose again. Any and all suggestions appreciated. Well, maybe not *all* suggestions :) Cliff
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