Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:28:09 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: smorton <smorton@acm.org> Cc: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting an Email into a PHP/pl script Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110051026070.3948-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3BBCE0AC.6020808@verizon.net>
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Simon Morton wrote: > Chris Aitken wrote: > > > > Problem is, this system isn't in place any more, and there isn't a > > backup of the old script I can even check up to see how it pulled the > > data into the script. > > > Just read it off standard input. And have a look at the vacation source code. Autoresponders are fine, but you ought to check: - that you've not already responded to the target address within some period (ie, keep a DB of responses) - that you're not responding to junk mail - that you're not responding to a "dear MAILER-DAEMON, ..." reply - that you _are_ replying to the "Reply-to:" field if present etc. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk On modesty: whoever said "it's hard being perfect" obviously wasn't me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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