On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org> wrote: >> They never hit Lyris. When a list message hits someone with OoO >> set, Exchange sends the auto-response directly to the address in the >> "From:" header, i.e., the person who sent the message. > > Maybe I don't know how Lyris does it, but most mail servers send a "reply to" > address of the list... So when you hit reply, it goes to the list, not the > individual. > Doesn't that make the automatic replies hit Lyris?
That would happen if that's what Exchange did. Exchange doesn't do that. Exchange looks at the RFC-822 "From:" header, and *only that*, when sending auto-responses. And I would argue that using Reply-To would still be the wrong thing. Mail programs are supposed to use the SMTP envelope. That's what signifies where the message came from. An auto-response should go to the actual sender. Especially an out-of-office, which is arguably a DSN (Delivery Status Notification). By analogy: If the post office can't deliver a letter, they use the return address on the envelope. They don't open the letter and then return it to whoever it appears originally wrote the letter. If there's an argument for doing it the way Exchange does it, I haven't seen one. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
