This highly effective trick was in the procmail example vacation script in
1991, and doubtless goes back much farther than that. It's a little
dismaying to hear that there are still people writing autoresponders who
don't know about it.
what is procmail?
The scriptable mail delivery agent that most Unix-ish systems use to sort
mail at delivery time. It's a marvel of robust programming, no updates
since 2001 but still works great.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=procmail&l=1
Regards,
John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
