On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 09:00:55AM +0200, kissg@sztaki.hu wrote:
Hi, David!
I think the database should send any outgoing mails with sender address <nobody@no.where.ripe.net> or similar nonexistent address. This would break any mailing loop. This is acceptable for humanoid recipients too because generally they don't want to reply the notifications and acknowledgements.
The return address from auto-dbm is already something else, not auto-dbm itself (it's not nobody, it is in fact a human whose "d" key must get more sore than the fire button in a cheap shoot-em-up game from all the bounces). (You might've noticed by actually looking at an auto-dbm reply! :) However, if you start copying Cc: lines, you're in trouble. Think about it a little and you'll figure it out. BTW, I have nothing to do with auto-dbm, but I do build or maintain email robots occasionally, so I know about the problem sphere. -- #! ##### Jan-Pieter Cornet ##### <johnpc@xs4all.net> ##### perl ++$_;$!=$_+++$_;($:,$,,$/,$*)=$!=~/.(.)...(.)(.).(.)/;$!=$_+$_; ($@,$\,$~)=$!=~/(.)(.).(.)/; $_="$,$/$:"; $@++; $~="$~$_";($_)= \$$=~/\((.)/;$|=++$_;$_++;$|++;$~="$~ $@$:";`$~$/$\$*$, $|>&$_`