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In article <1992Sep14.001000.7390@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>I have ftp-ed what appears to be chunks of a procmail system from
>usc.edu.  I cannot decipher it.

>Someone, please tell me how to just set up a simple system to
>recognize a particular e-mail address and to bounce the mail back.
>I am having a nagging problem with people who don't like my views
>and who are proceeding to send me most unteresting pieces of e-mail.
>Most of the stuff seems to come from people immersed in a most
>narrow-minded culture.

>With regards to bouncing back e-mail, I want to set up the bounce-back
>system to appear as though my e-mail address is unreachable.

I'd email, but this is of broader interest.

If you consult the UNIX Email Software Survey faq, you'll see that local
delivery agent adjunct programs such as "deliver", "procmail" and "mailagent"
provide programmatic mechanisms for doing things such as this.  This is
a simple permutation of the ubiquitous "vacation" program.  Deliver,
procmail or mailagent (you'll need Perl for mailagent) are probably the
least grief.  None of these packages require root access to install or
implement what you want.  Consult the FAQ for official sources of the
software and follow the instructions that come with the software.

I only have personal experience with deliver, which is particularly
easy to install and can do such things quite simply.  I'm doing far
more complex things than what you want.  If you take the deliver
route, I can send you some example filters which do things similar
to what you want.

Furthermore, if you're into hackery, you can usually do this with
your existing mail system (but you'll probably need root access):
	- sendmail via sendmail.cf hackery, or mail-to-pipe aliasing.
	- MMDF has filtering of various types
	- SVR4 mail
	- UUCP-style "rmail" - replace rmail with a shell script that
	  prescans the mail before handing it off to the real rmail.
Just about any mail software with mail-to-pipe capabilities can do this one
way or another.
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