Re: your ackmail.rc script

["Alan K. Stebbens" <http://www.anywhere.engr.sgi.com/~aks>]

> Hi.  I was wondering: why don't you use "formail -rD" in your ackmail.rc
> procmail script for preventing multiple responses to the same person?  Was
> this because you wanted the ability to have multiple "acknowledgements"?
> 
> I'd like to use it as a vacation script, but I'd like it to respond to
> people only once.

The "ackmail.rc" script does its own caching to avoid sending
multiple replies to the same address more frequently than once
per day.

The reason I did not include a "formail -D" is because I use another
recipe "dupcheck.rc" before I use "ackmail.rc".  I do not like having
scripts' functionalities overlap each other.

Currently, as its internal documenation says, it will only respond
to each address once per day.  It is trivially easy to change it
to respond only once, ever.

Good luck.
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Alan Stebbens <http://www.sgi.com/~aks>      http://reality.sgi.com/aks