On Friday 02 July 2010, Albrecht Dreß wrote: >Am 02.07.10 19:44 schrieb(en) Syed Zaeem Hosain ([email protected]): >> Hmmm ... can auto-responders distinguish between normal user e-mail and >> e-mail from a mailing list? > >Yes, if the list processor implements rfc2919 (see > <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2919>); then simply check for the existence > of the 'List-ID' header. Mailman, iirc, also adds 'X-BeenThere'. Sieve, > as an example, is able to deal with them properly without any further > user intervention as to suppress auto-replies. > >Unfortunately, this list doesn't contain any of these headers, though. > Thus, this needs to be fixed in the mailing list software IMHO. > >Cheers, Albrecht. > That messes with other things that I have learned to work around most of the time, so to me it would not be a big show stopping deal if that List-ID: header line were to be added.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
