This is an age-old problem. Some folks use this as an argument to make the default reply be the sender and not the list. That is one solution, but not one I like...
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. If folks violate this, then drop them off the list (or set them to "notmetoo") Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > 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? > I know I can reject or hold emails based on some header pattern matching, but > I cannot do this on a case by case basis, not all vacation scripts behave the > same, so this is not a solution for my problem. > I was thinking maybe there's a way to configure mailman so that if m1 sends > an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman will not send a copy of the email back to > m1 just because m1 is a list member. > > Also, is there a way to limit the number of postings each member is allowed > to sent per day? > > Thanks, > > -- > Gustavo M. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
