Re: Get mail message headers via pipe transport

From: mouss (no email)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 20:35:44 EST

  • Next message: Truong Tan Son: "How to patch for postfix-2.2.5."

    Webmaster Elaconta.com a écrit :
    > I've sucessfully built a virtual Postfix email server which reads the
    > users logins and passwords, quota limits, etc, from a database (Postfix
    > really excels at this kind of thing).
    > Users can now manage their domains on their own through a Web-interface.
    > I've just built a script to enable autoresponders (yes i know
    > autoresponders suck but some clients just want them and that's it) which
    > follow the configuration of Postfix in the manner discussed at:
    >
    > http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#autoreplies
    >
    > It works great. Thing is, I would like to know which measures can i take
    > to detect mailing lists so an autoreply (say a vacation message or
    > something) is never sent to a mailing list. I've googled for it, and
    > came up with the following:

    Look at RFC 3834.

    >
    > - Don't send autoreplies to emails with an envelope sender that begins
    > with "owner-"

    as well as "request-*", "*-request@*", "*-owner@*" ....

    > - Look for a "Precedence" header in the email, if it's set to "bulk",
    > "list" ou "junk" then don't send autoreplies to it.
    >

    - don't respond to bounces, spam and viruses
    - don't respond if the rcpt isn't in To/CC/Resent-TO/Resent-CC headers
    - don't respond to an auto-response (or to any automatically generated
       mail unless that is part of your auto-responder job)
    - ...

    > The thing is, as i'm using the following layout:
    >
    > /etc/postfix/master.cf:
    > # =============================================================
    > # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command
    > # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
    > # =============================================================
    > autoreply unix - n n - - pipe
    > flags= user=nobody argv=/path/to/autoreply $sender $mailbox
    > my autoreply script only gets access to the sender email address and the
    > mailbox (which is the recipient email address, as i'm using virtual). Is
    > there any way to pass along the email headers to the script so it could
    > check the "Precedence" header?

    you get the whole mail.

    now, reinventing the wheel is a risky thing. why not use the vacation
    program?


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