-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan J. Flavell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>It appears that this chap takes the view that there can be no >exceptions; but he offers no viable way of dealing with forwarded >addresses nor with vacation responses. While I have a great deal of >sympathy with the rest of what he says, I'm at a loss to know how to >deal with this aspect. Well, you could simply disable all automated vacation response systems for your users... In this day and age, very few people indeed are away from their email for more than a couple of days at a time, so there is seldom a real need for such systems. After a few moans, the facility would not be missed. I get dozens of responses a day of this type (because spammers forge my identity) -- they are second only to challenge-response as a source of back-scattered annoyance. I trivially reject the rubbish that has a null sender [no stats available on how many that might be], but I currently receive the rest -- and most of these turn out to contain detailed personal information (or company secrets about hierarchies, co-workers etc) that the security team would probably despair of, should they become aware of the information leakage and the potential for social engineering :( [see Mitnick, Art of Deception, for the risks] Anyway, when was the last time you changed your plans because of a vacation message that you received ? Removing vacation message supporting features would simplify Exim's code base :) remove a source of loops and reduce the documentation set. Sounds like a win to me! - -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBQ7Kcd5oAxkTY1oPiEQJuSwCfZylKdLCvgJ4UeH4WUa6GFXsy18oAoP1p JTph9V7EFVvpgyDlV9ZgkgB+ =Ls9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
