Those out of office messages are a real menace. I once worked for a company where the customer service dept worked mon-fri 8.30-5pm and near the end of Friday afternoon a customer service person sent a message to a customer, set his out of office message, then flipped his computer off and went home for the holiday weekend.
His message went to someone who had just done the same, so his computer automaticalyl sent back an out of office message. The CD person's account recognised the incoming message and sent his out-of-office message to the customer, which recognised the message coming in and sent his own out-of-office message which arrived at our server, which sent out our CD rep's out-of-office mesage which .... ok you get the idea. These two servers spent a happy 3-day weekend sending out-of-office messages to each other around the clock. When our network guy came in about 9am on Tuesday, he was greeted by an office full of grumpy people because they couldnt send or receive emails. In fact there were a lot of things that wouldnt work. "The network's broken!!" was the cry. "My computer wont do anything!". "I can't send emails!" or my personal favourite .. "The internet is broken!!" For me as a contractor, with specific responsiblity that didnt include managing the network, i got to smile a wry smile and sit back as i watched the network guy wrestle with a server that had no disk space remaining. And every time he cleared space, it promptly filled again with another fifty bazillion messages waiting to come in. It took him till after midday before the flow of out-of-office messages finally stopped and order was restored to the network. The first decision of the next day's IT committee was to ban out-of-office messages. ColdFusion content : I was there working independently on a side project using CF4.2. It was during this project that i read my first copy of CFWACK. One ofhte best IT technical books i've ever read. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Kamru Miah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dan, I don't deal with the email server side of things, but my friendly > system admin told me that we use the open source vacation mail responder, > which parses the message header and blocks any email that has 'Precedence: > bulk' in it, before passing the message to the email server. I believe we use > 'Debian-3sarge3' based email server. The email blocking is a built in feature > of the vacation mail responder. So, all you have to do is enable this feature > in your system. Hope that helps! Kamru > >>What email server are you using Kamru? Is that a custom field you built >>into your email server, or a built-in one? >> >>Thanks! >> >>Dan >> >>Kamru Miah wrote: >>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308662 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
