From: Webmaster Elaconta.com (webmasterelaconta.com)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 05:53:39 CST

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Oh, dumb me, of course, the whole mail is piped to the script. Okay.
Thanks for the RFC reference, i'm going to take a closer look at it.
Is that vacation program you mention part of Postfix, or is it one of the
10.000 vacation scripts that are around the Net? Which do you recommend?

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Webmaster Elaconta
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----- Original Message -----
From: "mouss" <usebsdfree.fr>
To: "Webmaster Elaconta.com" <webmasterelaconta.com>
Cc: <postfix-userspostfix.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: Get mail message headers via pipe transport

> Webmaster Elaconta.com a écrit :
>> I've sucessfully built a virtual Postfix email server which reads the
>> users logins and passwords, quota limits, etc, from a database (Postfix
>> really excels at this kind of thing).
>> Users can now manage their domains on their own through a Web-interface.
>> I've just built a script to enable autoresponders (yes i know
>> autoresponders suck but some clients just want them and that's it) which
>> follow the configuration of Postfix in the manner discussed at:
>>
>> http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#autoreplies
>>
>> It works great. Thing is, I would like to know which measures can i take
>> to detect mailing lists so an autoreply (say a vacation message or
>> something) is never sent to a mailing list. I've googled for it, and came
>> up with the following:
>
> Look at RFC 3834.
>
>>
>> - Don't send autoreplies to emails with an envelope sender that begins
>> with "owner-"
>
> as well as "request-*", "*-request*", "*-owner*" ....
>
>> - Look for a "Precedence" header in the email, if it's set to "bulk",
>> "list" ou "junk" then don't send autoreplies to it.
>>
>
> - don't respond to bounces, spam and viruses
> - don't respond if the rcpt isn't in To/CC/Resent-TO/Resent-CC headers
> - don't respond to an auto-response (or to any automatically generated
> mail unless that is part of your auto-responder job)
> - ...
>
>
>> The thing is, as i'm using the following layout:
>>
>> /etc/postfix/master.cf:
>> # =============================================================
>> # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command
>> # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
>> # =============================================================
>> autoreply unix - n n - - pipe
>> flags= user=nobody argv=/path/to/autoreply $sender $mailbox
>> my autoreply script only gets access to the sender email address and the
>> mailbox (which is the recipient email address, as i'm using virtual). Is
>> there any way to pass along the email headers to the script so it could
>> check the "Precedence" header?
>
> you get the whole mail.
>
> now, reinventing the wheel is a risky thing. why not use the vacation
> program?
>

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