>Since I already had an html filter in place, adding the autoreply feature >was a piece of cake. Now, it appears that most offending messages are in >fact virus. this means the autoreply goes either to a fake email address, >or to a real one, but stuffed with unread messages. The result is I >receive an additional message stating that my reply did not go through.
I wouldn't automate it. If you look over your blank HTML attachment emails, I think you will find a tiny portion of those are actually legit. In fact, likely it will turn out to be one or two people only that do it. The rest are either virus or spam, both of which you don't want to reply to, because neither will do any good so all you are doing at best is clogging the internet with more junk, or worse you will annoy someone who's address is being used by virus (it won't be them sending the virus so you aren't alerting them to anything helpful, you are just filling their inbox with junk they don't need to be bothered with). OR like you said, you may in fact tell a spammer that your address is a good address. So basically, I would only send the reply manually to someone that you think will benifit from the info. But keep in mind, the problem may be out of their control. Their mail client is already broken, so it may not offer a plain text only option. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
