Re: [PLUG] Postfix autoresponder experiences?

2018-02-15 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Michael Barnes wrote:


Personal opinion. Autoresponders are the work of the devil and should be
avoided at all costs.


Michael,

  I am well aware of the potential for misuse. Some of us experience it on
the PLUG mail lists with a server in South Africa. If I installed and
configured one it would have to exclude mail lists.

  It's not that I really need one, but it seems to be required by many
working for large companies. I can see the need attorneys have for letting
folks know when they're in trial or taking a deposition, but otherwise ...

  It is mostly curiosity that promted me to ask for feedback from those who
have used an autoresponder with postfix.

Regards,

Rich


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Re: [PLUG] Postfix autoresponder experiences?

2018-02-14 Thread Michael Barnes 
Personal opinion. Autoresponders are the work of the devil and should be
avoided at all costs.

If you do set up an autoresponder, PLEASE be careful of the configuration,
especially in respect to things like this forum. Years ago, when I used
dial-up on the road to get email, an individual set up an autoresponder
which replied to every email received that he was out of the office. He
left it on for a week while he was on vacation. Every email from a forum
was replied to, including the emails his autoresponder sent out that he was
out of the office. This feedback effect generated THOUSANDS of emails per
hour. Trying to download those on a 2400 bps dialup connection simply
wasn't sucessful. It caused a tremendous hardship for many folks. That poor
fellow never lived it down. On that forum now 15 years later, people still
refer to the Farron Oscillator, named after the perpetrator.

Michael


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Rich Shepard 
wrote:

>   There seem to be a few out-of-office autoresponders for postfix,
> including
> vacation (a perl script) and a java application 'autoresponse'. Has anyone
> here used any autoresponder? If so, what are your experiences with it.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
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[PLUG] Postfix autoresponder experiences?

2018-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard 

  There seem to be a few out-of-office autoresponders for postfix, including
vacation (a perl script) and a java application 'autoresponse'. Has anyone
here used any autoresponder? If so, what are your experiences with it.

TIA,

Rich
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