Procmail autoresponse to a single sender (or few ones)

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I've been looking some similar examples and slight changes to them to perform that but unsuccessfully. This is the first recipe at $HOME/.procmailrc of the user "me".
Mail is received by [email protected] but the auto response is not sent. Centos 7, Postfix
procmail log doesn't say anything about that.

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* ^[email protected]
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^FROM_MAILER
* !^X-Loop: [email protected]
| (formail -rk \
    -A "X-Loop: [email protected]" \
    -A "Precedence: junk"; \
    echo "Testing";\
    echo "This is an automated response";\
    echo "Not sure to see your message";\
    echo "So please try again tomorrow" ) | $SENDMAIL -t -oi

I found similar thing on [howto forge](https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-a-postfix-autoresponder-with-autorespons/) maybe it might help you — djdomi, May 22 '22 at 06:52
Link is 404. At howtoforge.com I tried search by "autorespons","autoreply","vacation", "procmail" with no results — Daniel Franco, May 22 '22 at 11:05

Daniel Franco · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-29T20:59:10.047

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I used the structure of the second line * ^[email protected] from , page suggested in another question/answer in SeverFault.

I simply changed that by * ^From.*[email protected] and it worked

edited May 29 '22 at 20:59

answered May 22 '22 at 12:04

Daniel Franco

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Indeed, `^[email protected]` would simply look in the headers for this exact string (after the `^`, except `.` matches any character) at beginning of line, which is not fundamentally impossble, but not something you would ever see in reality. – tripleee May 22 '22 at 18:55
can you please refer the answers from serverfault.com which you mean? – djdomi May 28 '22 at 15:19
@djdomi Done, added to the question – Daniel Franco May 29 '22 at 21:00
Great, dont forgot to accept your answer later on – djdomi May 30 '22 at 03:29

Procmail autoresponse to a single sender (or few ones)

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