On 7/31/2008, Maxime Frenette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What do you think about the use of the "Out of office" in outlook ? > > We previously "banned" the use of this assistant since we hadn't a > really good anti-spam software and many mails was passing trought to > users and with the out of office auto-reply, we confirmed to many > spam list our domain and adresses.
First of all, something like this should never, ever be done at the CLIENT level (ie, using an Outlook filter). Personally I hate these, but I do see a place for them, but ONLY if they are implemented properly. If you are going to use a 'vacation' type auto responder, it should conform to the best practices for such things. See the BSD vacation script for one that does just this. Some - but definitely not all - of these practices are: Don't respond to the same sender more than once every x days (MINIMUM of 1 day, but the RFC says 7 days) Don't respond to mail list messages Don't respond to messages with NULL <> sender ONLY respond to the real sender (envelope from), NOT anything in the headers I'm sure others will chime in with more... -- Best regards, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
