On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Barry Finkel wrote:
> Are there plans for Mailman to be able to intercept out-of-office
> replies and ignore them? Or is the format of the text too variable
> to be able to parse the OOO message?
I've solved this problem locally using a procmail rule, and I think the
method could be implemented in mailman itself if others thought it
worthwhile. I only send on to mailman messages that match
procmail's FROM_MAILER check, anything else is sent directly to a human.
My theory is if the message isn't from a mailer-daemon, than it probably
isn't a bounce.
For those not familiar with procmail, FROM_MAILER expands to a faily
complicated regex designed to catch mail from any mailer-daemon.
`(^(((Resent-)?(From|Sender)|X-Envelope-From):
|>?From )([^>]*[^([EMAIL PROTECTED])?(Post(ma(st(er)?|n)|office)
|(send)?Mail(er)?|daemon|mmdf|n?uucp|ops|r(esponse|oot)
|(bbs\.)?smtp(error)?|s(erv(ices?|er)|ystem)
|A(dmin(istrator)?|MMGR))(([^).!:a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*)?[%@>\t
][^<)]*(\(.*\).*)?)?$([^>]|$))'
The aliases entry looks like this:
listname-bounces: \
"|/usr/local/bin/procmail -m /etc/mail/listname-bounces.rc"
listname-bounces.mc has:
# Only send stuff from the mailer to mailman
:0
* ^FROM_MAILER
| /home/mailman/mail/mailman bounces listname
#Everything else to a human
:0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
http://www.westnet.com/
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