Anthony Farr wrote: > A few days ago I got an "Out of Office AutoReply" from a corporate email > address to a message I sent to PDML. Like you the addressee was not > listed in my address book so I don't understand how I could even have > accidentally cc'd him.... [Snip] Has anyone else had something similar > lately?
Hi Anthony, I got an MS Outlook out-of-office auto-reply a few days ago as well. This also happened a few months ago, IIRC. I believe the problem is that someone with MS Outlook activates his/her Out-of-Office Manager (presumably before going on extended leave from the office), and then anyone sending him/her an e-mail gets an automatic reply, creating havok for any lists to which he/she subscribes. If this individual happens to get one -- or several dozen -- e-mails from the PDML server, then his/her mailserver dutifully sends out one -- or perhaps several dozen -- automatic replies to the PDML server. And of course, any posting to the listserver gets forwarded to all of us PDMLers. This Out-of-Office Manager is only supposed to auto-reply once to any given e-mail sender -- that is, if I send this individual ten e-mails, only the first one will get an auto-reply. However, I believe that Outlook looks for the "From" address rather than the "Reply-to" address. Thus, all his/her PDML mail looks like it comes from dozens of different individual senders (even though the reply-to address is the same), so dozens of auto-replies are sent out (rather than just a single auto-reply to the PDML address). I think Doug's got the listserver set up now so that anyone sending such an autoreply gets auto-unsubscribed, but I'm not sure. I know that when this problem happened several months ago (due to some PDMLer activating his MS Office auto-reply feature), I was getting double the PDML mail for the better part of a day. Each authentic PDML message was accompanied by a note from this particular PDMLer stating that he was out of the office presently, but would respond following his return. Quite aggravating! ;-) Bill Peifer Rochester, NY - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
