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From: Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca>
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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Cliff Addy wrote:

> 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 [...]

Just use procmail, it is fairly easy to set up to take care of mail loops,
"mailbot wars", etc. It is available as a package, I am sure. 

Antonio
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