From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 03:47:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA24576 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 03:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (root@gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24557; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 03:46:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id DAA27579; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 03:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id DAA19497; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 03:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA01109; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 03:46:36 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199702031146.DAA01109@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 03:46:36 -0800 In-Reply-To: Cliff Addy "mailbot wars" (Feb 2, 9:50pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Cliff Addy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailbot wars Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 2, 9:50pm, Cliff Addy wrote: } Subject: mailbot wars } 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? Change the From: header and the envelope From address in your autoresponder's reply to an address that does not point at the autoresponder. --- Truck