On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 01:06, Tom Collins wrote: > While we'reat it, the call to autorespond for vacations will go at the > END of the.qmail file to avoid as many problems as possible.
the patch that I provided fixes autorespond so it isn't broken, and shouldn't cause any stupid bounces. I made it act more like Bruce's qmail-autoresponder. You can find the patch on the sourceforge page. However, I also mentioned there that my patch breaks the "mail robot" functionality in a way. I will bring that up here: autoresponders in use as vacation replies are generally supposed to allow everything through and reply to only a few things. That makes sense, because you don't want to lose any mail, just make it so Jenny in accounting knows you're at lunch when she emails you that big finance report. Surely you don't want that being lost in the mail :) Auto-respond robots that exist to simply reply to incoming mail should act differently. They SHOULD bounce mailing list messages, because they should try to get removed from them. They should bounce Precendence: bulk messages (who ever sends those anymore, eh? :) because that shouldn't be being sent to an autoresponder anyways. They SHOULD bounce the message when someone emails too fast, so they know it's working. My patch was for the vacation replies, as with the current (stable, if you must) autoresponder, they were entirely broken. > We might alsosupport qmail-autorespond as a better replacement. that sounds good, but that is also 'broken' for the 'mail robot' functionality. Also, backwards compatibility isn't there, and having to install two different autoresponder packages to install qmailadmin would be kind of daunting for a new user. Also, and as much as I love bruce and his software, his autoresponder package is slightly more of a pain to install. You must install his bglibs, and if you don't want mysql support, or don't have mysql installed or anything, you have to edit the Makefile so it'll actually build! Just dropping my two cents :) > If anyone wants to sponsor the fix, I can make it an even > higherpriority. :-) as always ;) -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchen @ #qmail on EFNet - Join the party! ..................... Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com 866.528.3530 toll free 847.492.0470 int'l 847.492.0632 fax GNUPG key ID: 93BDD6CE
