ROBOTS AND
MAIL FILTERING

This page contains links to information about:

• Filtering and Auto Responding
• Running a Mailing List
• Miscellaneous References

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Filtering and Auto Responding

A good place to start is the Filtering Mail FAQ, which includes general strategies, and basic instructions for procmail, mailagent, and elm's filter. More information about these, and other tools, is available at the links below.

• Infinite Ink's Processing Mail with Procmail
• Mailagent
  • Mailagent section of the Filtering Mail FAQ
  • FTP directory
• Elm's Filter
  • Filter section of the Filtering Mail FAQ
  • Official Elm Page
  • Sven Guckes' Elm Filter Page
• Dave Taylor's Embot
• Daxtron Laboratories' MailBot for Microsoft Mail
• Doug Oard's Amazing Information Filtering Resources - lots of information on mail filtering, news filtering, and filtering in general

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Running a Mailing List

• FAQs
  • Mailing list management software FAQ
  • Mail Archive Server Software List
  • Majordomo FAQ
• Smartlist
  • List of Smartlist Features
  • FTP directory
  • To subscribe to the smartlist mailing list, send mail to smartlist-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de with the Subject subscribe (the body of your message will be ignored).
• News Groups
  • comp.mail.list-admin.policy Policy issues in running mailing lists.
  • comp.mail.list-admin.software Software used in the running of mailing lists.
• Yahoo's Computers and Internet:Software:Mailing Lists

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Miscellaneous References

• Worldtalk Email References
• Carnegie Mellon's Andrew II:
  • Email Protocols and RFCs
  • Email Robot and Auto Replier Resources
• Daxtron Laboratories MailBot and Agent Technology Index
• sendmail
  • comp.mail.sendmail news group
  • FAQs are archived at Utrecht, Oxford, and Ohio State
  • book
• Yahoo's Computers and Internet:Software:Protocols:SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• FAQs and News Groups in the comp.mail.* Hierarchy