Jim Popovitch a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Izak Burger <[email protected]> wrote: >> our own auto-reply exim router (as requested by clients) checks for about 16 >> different headers > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 06:44, Dusty Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] >> I understand that it takes both sides to fix the problem: mailing >> list software to send the headers to be obvious that there shouldn't >> be an auto-reply, mailserver software to read the headers and >> therefore not auto-reply. > > Bah!! Headers change over time.
Headers don't change that often... Auto-responder authors should read RFC 3834. > The simple and easy way to solve > OoO problems is for vacation responders to only reply to From:/Sender: never reply to addresses found in headers. auto-resp should go to (original) envelope sender. I don't want to get an OoO if I post to a list (be that a real mailing-list or a "simple" list). > if (and only if) To: == $recipient. > of course, no auto-response should be sent if the "mailbox owner" is not found in the To: or Cc: headers. but parsing RFC 822 addresses is harder than parsing Precedence, Auto-Submitted headers, looking for typical list addresses in a few headers, ... etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
