Out of Office Replies

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 11 18:12:22 UTC 2003


On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> That's the whole point of this thread.  How do you identify such
> messages with procmail?
>
> Mailing list messages are easily recognized and procmail has a specific
> filter to help you recognize them.  Out of office messages are not
> easily recognisable.  No common headers to filter on ... if I'd been
> filtering out messages with 'out of office' in the subject I'd have
> missed the entire thread.

:0B:
* (is out of.*office)
/dev/null

man procmailrc

I suggest you make the rule more specific so it does not eat any personal
email that is sent to you, and that you turn on logging and have the log
sent to you to check from time to time. In case some important email gets
eaten.

Peter
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