[rt-devel] Re: escape certain mail-adresses vom autoreply.

[Jesse]

The specific issue I was dealing with was the fact that certainly poorly
designed autoresponders get into rather "animated" discussions with RT.

That may not be what robert was talking about ;)

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:04:08AM +1000, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> [Follow up to re-devel]
> 
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jesse wrote:
> 
> > *nod* procmail is the quick workaround. "Real" configurability for this 
> > will probably come sometime in 2.x. It's not likely in 2.0.
> 
> I'm not convinced. Procmail is a mail delivery agent, not a mail transport
> agent. Black holing via procmail will no cause bounces.
> 
> What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve, and why is more
> complexity in RT the correct way to solve it?
> 
> > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 04:25:16PM +0200, robert rotman wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > no, what i ment is to intergrate a domain/mailname list-file in rt.
> > > which should escape the autoreply.
> > > (maby a file with regex syntax which can easily eval'd by perl)
> > > doing that with an MTA would cause bounces and is - in my point of view 
> > > - not the way this shold be done.
> > > 
> > > robert
> > > 
> > > PS: this is a feature request;) 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jesse wrote:
> > > 
> > > > procmail is probably the easiest way to blackhole certain senders.
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 12:44:13PM +0200, robert rotman wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > hi!
> > > > > 
> > > > > how can i make rt not to send autoreplys to predefind mailadresses..
> > > > > if that is not possible, is there a quick workaround for this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > thanx in advance,
> > > > > 
> > > > >   robert
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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