On 12 Oct 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > Really the best solution is to teach folks the proper way to setup a > vacation message. Vacation messages should *only* respond to emails > where either the TO: or CC: of the message has the users email address > in it.
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I manage a mailing list site with mailman, and I recently had the > > following problem: > > > > Lets say I have a list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 3 members: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] m3 has its vacation script > > turned on. m1 sends an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so m2,m3 and m1 itself > > receive the email. m3's vacation script replies to m1 and to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], so m1 gets 2 copies of the reply (one directly and one > > through [EMAIL PROTECTED]), m2 gets a copy and m1 gets a copy of its own > > reply which in turn will be replied by its vacation script and so on. > > So my mail server ends up sending a lot of useless emails. How can I > > stop this situation? ... Also, vacation programs should keep track of addresses to which they have already sent an on-vacation message, and not send another such message within X number of days. Jon's suggestions will do more to eliminate your problem, while mine only reduces the problem. (But, importantly, my suggestion does eliminate the looping effect; the "and so on" part of your problem report.) Both Jon's suggestions and mine require you to be able to influence the behavior of your list members, and I agree with Jon that dropping people from the list is a perfectly valid way to attempt to influence people who cause endless message loops -- especially to a mailing list. At any rate, it is the appropriate thing to do with list members who do nothing when you politely point out to them why their vacation message set-up and/or program is causing problems. - Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mailman Administrator - http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
