On Saturday, March 6, 2004, 14:24:27, Keith Pase wrote:
> as a manner of etiquette is there a proper way to stop autoresponses, say as
> a vacation message, from going back to a list?
I like the behaviour of the BSD vacation command:
No message will be sent unless login (or an alias supplied using
the -a option) is part of either the "To:" or "Cc:" headers of the
mail. No messages from "???-REQUEST", "Postmaster", "UUCP",
"MAILER", or "MAILER-DAEMON" will be replied to (where these
strings are case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a
"Precedence: bulk", "Precedence: list", or "Precedence: junk" line
is included in the mail headers.
> Or do most list owners just put in a filter for "autoresponse" in the
> subject line and just delete those messages?
There's no standard subject line format for vacation messages, you'd
risk dropping discussions about "autoresponse" messages :-)
> Was just curious as to what would happen if there was a fight between
> a list server and someone who had an autoresponse on their email
> address that wasn't a one-shot vacation message; ...
You get a lot of pissed off list recipients with calls of "get this bozo
off the list".
> I haven't been on vacation in 2 years so I'm not sure how ipswitch handles
> such things. :P
It seems to be pretty good about only sending one response per e-mail
address.
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