On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:08:44AM -0500, AltGrendel wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:45, Dan Wilder wrote:
>
> >
> > The reasons I would never in a million years set up such an
> > autoresponder are:
> >
> > * It only increases the burden on the Internet and on one's own
> >mail servers,
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:45, Dan Wilder wrote:
>
> The reasons I would never in a million years set up such an
> autoresponder are:
>
> * It only increases the burden on the Internet and on one's own
>mail servers, attempting to send mail which will in most cases
>simply time out due
Very easy to do what you describe using procmail. If I were
setting up something like this (which I would not do for love
or for money) I'd use the vacation program to actually send
the messages, avoiding getting trapped in most kinds of mail
loops.
The reasons I would never in a million years