Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply"

[Steven M. Bellovin]

Thanks for the note -- I'll resist the temptation to have procmail 
forward a copy of your instructions to anyone whose mailer sends such
a note to the IETF list.

But I'm disturbed that Exchange is using the Precedence: line as its 
selector mechanism.  I'm hardly an email expert, but a quick grep 
through the RFCs turned up exactly one mention of the Precedence: 
header line.  That reference is in 2076, which describes it as 
"Non-standard, controversial, discouraged".  No RFC definition is cited.
It would be nice if such an important feature relied only on 
standardized headers.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb