Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
>
> Note that fork@xent.com is not a mailing list, it's just a sendmail
> alias, and none of the standard headers are present that would
> identify mail from FoRK as being from a mailing list.
>
> So autoresponders can't do the right thing even if they want to.
> To: fork@xent.com
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Autoreponder problems!]
Well, the MH autoresponder that the support people here have set up
does the right thing, i.e., not send out an autoresponse when
the to: header doesn't match the user.
<<<
Rcvtrip reads incoming mail, checking for three things:
1) address(es) in "Reply-To:" or in "From:" and
"Sender:",
2) the presence of the user's name in the "To:" or
"cc:" fields, and
3) the contents of the "Subject:" field.
Any originator of mail who has not previously been notified
receives a reply, as long as the recipient is explicitly
mentioned in an address field ("To:" or "cc:") or is a
first-order alias of one of the "To:"/"cc:" addresses.
>>>
The manpage is from 1984. Why can't other people implement a
functionality that the authors of MH were able to do 17 years ago?
-Joe
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