This doesn't directly answer your question, but a roundabout way to not send
vacation messages to a list server (or whomever else for that matter), is to
add that email address to the vacation.snt file in the user's folder on the
server.  Each time a message is received, IMail checks that file and if the
address is already listed, it won't send out the vacation message.

Like I said, it's not the best solution, but it works.



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Shadix
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Vacation message to list servers

On the SAMBA list I had the below conversation concerning vacation messages
and listserves.  Can Imail recognize mail with Precedence: List or in some
other way recognize that mail is from a listserve and not send the vacation
message?

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Dan Shadix said on Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:22:54PM -0600:
> The problem is that the messages from this list come addressed From: each
person instead of the list.  There's no way to set up the vacation message
to know that the message is from a list (at least on our server).

Then your server is broken.  The Unix vacation program has been able to
notice
list email and not reply to it since 1983.  Each message to the list
provides
more than enough information (List headers, etc) for an automated process to
notice that this is a mailing list, and not reply to it.

M 

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