From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 2:30:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B0F37B41C for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:29:42 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15pRH7-0003AW-00; Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:28:09 +0100 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:28:09 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: smorton Cc: Chris Aitken , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Getting an Email into a PHP/pl script In-Reply-To: <3BBCE0AC.6020808@verizon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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