Scott Russell wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:41:31AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
> >
> >
> > Scott Russell wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay, I've got the sieve stuff from 2.1.x CVS build under 2.0.16 and
> > > everything seems to be running fine. A few test scripts I setup worked
> > > as expected.
> > >
> > > With the vacation setup, what will it NOT respond to. I've some of this
> > > listed in the draft but I'm looking for a full list. I would also like
> > > to know if the list of don't-reply-conditions is configurable.
> > >
> > > My first concern is that vacation NOT respond to mail with headers of
> > > Precedence: Bulk. I know Mailman uses this and we have a lot of mailman lists
> > > here. :)
> >
> > The Sieve draft (as you've noticed) and the CMU implementation only
> > check for automated system type sender addresses (does Mailman use
> > something other than those listed in the draft?).
I also forgot that CMU Sieve checks for an Auto-Submitted header with a
keyword other than "no".
> > Dealing with other
> > headers would be touchy at best, because somebody will always complain
> > that we have it wrong. Making it configurable is a possibility,
>
> I meantion the Precedence: bulk header because I thought it was an RFC mail
> header. I could be wrong though. I agree that we shouldn't muck up the
> vacation module with to much garbage. I do think that the guidelines used
> by the BSD/Linux vacation binary work well though. The vacation binary
> also supports the Precedence: header.
Yeah. I just checked out the vacation.c packaged with Sendmail, and it
checks for "Precedence: junk|bulk|list"
I also remember a discussion on the mta-filters list about checking for
headers that start with "List-". I don't recall there ever being a
resolution to this. And I don't think a new draft has come out since.
I'm going back on my previous statement, but perhaps both of these
checks are worthwhile adding to the CMU implementation. Yes, you can do
this within the script itself, but expecting all users to do this is
probably too optimistic (a good GUI or template _could_ do it however).
Any reasons not to add these checks?
Ken
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