Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote: > >>> The vacation utility on unix seems smart enough to not be a nuissance >>> and still be functional for those who need it. >>> >> I don't know that offhand but as long as it only sends to known contacts >> then yes it would be ok to use. >> > > To send to known contacts you need to have that stored somewhere. Seeing > there are many different ways for email clients to store contacts it > must be hard to implement. Perhaps you refer to addresses they sent > emails to, which are in some (personalised) whitelist? > > The vacation program will not repeatedly email someone who already got a > vacation reply from you. Neither will it email mailinglists. At least I > have used it and didn't get kicked off of here and didn't see anything > on the list. http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/vacation.1.php > The "once", "once_repeat" and "personal" conditions in exim filters should perform in much the same way. Personally I haven't had much of a problem with autoreplies. Most of our spam gets filtered at the server, of what does get through most of it won't match the "personal" requirement. We might send out 1 or 2 autoreplies to spam which is unfortunate, but hardly the end of the world.
As someone who has had their address forged in spam, I can state that the autoreplies don't bother me that much. If I email someone and they aren't going to reply for a week or a month, I would like to know that (messages saying "We think your message is spam" are something else though). I don't really see a major difference between an autoreply and a bounce message. Both tell me that my message isn't going to get read (yet). On the occasions I have had my address forged I have recieved several hundred bounce messages a couple of autoreplies, I delete them along with the bounce messages and move on. > Gretings, > Jeroen > > *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
