9 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildropRe: [maildropl] RFC 3834
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Ralf HildebrandtAug 4, 2005 5:59 am 
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email builderAug 5, 2005 5:22 pm 
Sam VarshavchikAug 5, 2005 6:24 pm 
Ralf HildebrandtAug 6, 2005 3:50 am 
Tony EarnshawAug 6, 2005 4:43 am 
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Subject:Re: [maildropl] RFC 3834Actions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Aug 5, 2005 6:24:03 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

email builder writes:

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I'm not familiar with what these RFCs are (maybe someone could paste them in), but we use mailbot, especially because it does have that logic not to reply to the same address more than once every X hours/days/whatever.  As far as autoresponding, why are there two tools?  Why would someone use reformail as opposed to mailbot?  Why do they have different featuresets? 

It's mostly historical. reformail is meant to be an equivalent to procmail's formail. Generating a reply message is just one of reformail's functions, it also has generic options to add or subtract individual headers. reformail does not actually mail the transformed message, but always pipes it to stdout.

Mailbot's functionality, on the other hand, is limited to generating autoreplies, and it will conditionally suppress the autoreply.