Has anyone managed to write a procmail recipe that can effectively identify TMDA auto-replies? You know, the kind that say "To release your message for delivery, please send an empty message..."
Having never used TMDA, I don't know what's commonly customized and what I can expect to see there. I note that the header has X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62. Perhaps that's sufficient.
:0 * ^X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA /dev/null
Do folks commonly (or ever) modify their TMDA setup to get around the fact that they're more annoying than listening to Clear Channel Radio?
On a related note, I don't reply to TMDA. Ever. I don't care if you're my Mom. That is NOT the solution to spam. Sorry.
I don't want to see them or even know that they arrived. I'll simply shitcan them to /dev/null and go on with life.
Posted by jzawodn at March 06, 2003 04:49 PM
Yeah, the worst part is that I usually get them from people who one way or another asked me for help! I can't ignore them fast enough.
- ask
What a very short sighted comment. Considering its a one click reply to help someone keep there mailbox SPAM free I think this is exactly the future of SPAM control.
Any other regulation has proved fruitless. Considering most people are email me for help I dont think its unreasonable for them to send an empty reply to me for confirmation and to release their original email.
I am 99.9% SPAM free now thanks to TMDA (which yahoo is now implementing) my prediction is that it will be come a built in standard in a lot of mails servers.
But if a mouse click is so precious to you guys and you take the effort to delete instead of confirm then more power to you. Fortunately I will never hear from you again.
