Auto-responders aren't supposed to reply to anything that does not have your email address on the To: line (or, sometimes, the CC: line). Mail from a mailing list typically has the list address, and not your own address, on the To: line. It should also do a "Reply", and not a "Reply All", sending the response to only the person that actually wrote the email. A responder that does either of these will generally not cause an auto-response to go to a list address.
So the best way to avoid problems is to use a standards-compliant mail system. Unfortunately, many of the more popular corporate mail systems are generally ignorant of long established SMTP standards and best practices. For those that care: Auto-Response to Email: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321 Internet Message Format: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322 Like so many other networking protocols, if you think email routing and responding is a fairly straight-forward and common sense kind of thing, you haven't thought about the problem hard enough. Most of the standards and recommendations were learned "the hard way" over the last 30 years. -j On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:28:45AM -0400, Pavel Ivanov scratched on the wall: > Just an idea - not checked (I never use Out-of-Office auto-replies), > but could work: if your email client is MS Outlook then probably it > would be better to not use Out-of-Office Assistant, but setup new rule > instead. Make this rule for every message except for those that sent > to sqlite-us...@sqlite.org. And let the rule to auto-reply with the > message of your choice. Maybe you won't be able to include words > "Out-of-Office Auto-Reply" in the header but you definitely can put > any custom message body. > > > Pavel > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Odekirk, Shawn > <shawn.odek...@intelligrated.com> wrote: > > I will be out of the office beginning next week and was planning to turn > > on the out of office auto reply in my email client, but I would like to > > avoid spamming the group. I noticed a couple auto replies got through to > > the group earlier in the week. > > Is there anything I should do on my end to minimize the chances the > > group will receive auto replies? > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > > sqlite-users mailing list > > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Intelligence is like underwear: it is important that you have it, but showing it to the wrong people has the tendency to make them feel uncomfortable." -- Angela Johnson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
