> From: David F. Skoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Do you whitelist replies from out-of-office software?
>
> > It is reasonable to assume that if one of my users sends
> someone mail, then
> > they want a reply.
>
> Unless the outbound mail is sent by an auto-responder, or by
> an unsophisticated
> user.
This gives me a crazy idea. It seems like it would be nice to have an
extension to the SMTP protocol to give out-of-office notification at RCPT TO
time. That would eliminate the need for out-of-office-replies altogether.
Something like
sending-mta.example.com sending email to receiving-mta.example.org
<<< Banner ESMTP receiving-mta.example.org
>>> HELO sending-mta.example.com
<<< 200 OK
>>> MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 200 OK
>>> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 200 OK
>>> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 500 Don't know any fred, sorry
>>> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 400 ellen's mailbox is full, try again later
and now the proposed extension:
>>> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 2xx: OK, but mary's out-of-office until mm/dd/yy if it's urgent ask
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compliant sending MTAs could construct their own out-of-office message back
to the sender including the alert message (which would have to be short)
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