Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 03:46:36 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailbot wars Message-ID: <199702031146.DAA01109@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com> "mailbot wars" (Feb 2, 9:50pm)
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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
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