[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
I think considering them spam is a little strong.
While it is not spam, it is undesirable and annoying. more annoying is
the fact that this problem is known since a long time but people keep
misconfiguring their systems (or reinventing broken vacation programs).
Vacation messages:
- should not be sent to mailing-lists,
- should anyway be sent to the envelope sender (or return-path if
generated after delivery) not the address retrieved in the From header
- should only be sent when the recipient is in a To/CC/... header.
See RFC 3834 for more recommendations.
Here, we see two kinds:
- some are sent directly to a poster, because they are sent to the
address retrieved in the From header. but automatic responses are like
DSNs, and should thus be sent to the envelope sender, which is generally
retrieved in the Return-Path (and if not, the MTA should provide it to
the vacation program).
- some are sent to the list (not to the -owner) which is only found in
To or CC headers. This is worst.
