Actually, a proper "vacation" code is very simple. If the recipient's email address is not listed in the To: or Cc: lines of the message, don't reply.
A bit more considerate vacation program adds the condition: If I have sent a notice to this sender already, don't reply. Jonathan Johnson wrote: > Unfortunately, many people set their MUA's (Outlook/Express) mail rules > filter to provide the vacation message, then leave it running when they're > gone. Others set the rule and close Outlook, then when they get back from > vacation and download all their messages everyone gets a vacation message > even thogh they're back. Outlook/Express do not allow you to create custom > rules like "Where the Precedence line contains "list" do not send vacation > message". > > These people are broken and cannot be fixed. :-P > > At the very least, they should set a rule "where the subject contains > "samba" don't send vacation message." Or something like that. > > For those with the ability so set proper rules, the following two header > fields appear in EVERY message from the samba list and can be used for > custom filter sets: > > Precedence: list > List-Id: General questions regarding Samba <samba.lists.samba.org> > > The Precedence line should be used to prevent vacation messages from being > sent. The List-Id can be used to direct these messages into an appropriate > mailbox folder. > > --Jon > > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- Matthew Lee Stier * Fujitsu Network Communications Unix Systems Administrator | Two Blue Hill Plaza Ph: 845-731-2097 Fx: 845-731-2011 | Sixth Floor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Pearl River, NY 10965
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