Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?

1999-06-14 Thread Giles Lean
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:48:47 -0400 Dave Kitabjian wrote: > I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very > nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on > holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite > loop of

Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?

1999-06-14 Thread Kai MacTane
Text written by Anand Buddhdev at 06:16 PM 6/14/99 +0300: > >Anyway, why go to all this hassle. There are ready programs to do exactly >this for you - unix systems come built in with a vacation message, and >there's one available on www.qmail.org if you don't like the built-in >vacation program.

Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?

1999-06-14 Thread Dave Sill
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very >nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on >holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite >loop of holiday notific

Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?

1999-06-14 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Dave Kitabjian wrote: Your script has two big failings. It is not checking to see who the sender is, and it is not setting the return path of the vacation message to null, ie. <>. Your user on holiday may receive bounces - they will have the SENDER varia

Holiday messaging: preventing loops?

1999-06-14 Thread Dave Kitabjian
I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota enforceme