[ILUG] This User group and Out of office.

[Dave Wilson]

Wayne,

> Will this happen on this Group? I'd hate to have to unsubscribe,
> Well just thought I'd ask incase I piss alot of people off.

IMHO, the problem is usually badly written out-of-office programs.
Most of them are badly written, and most of their users can't tell.

If your o-o-o program:

- Sends to the Return-path: (instead of From:)
- Ignores messages with Precedence: bulk and Precedence: junk
- Replies only once per address

you're *probably* alright, and if you can

- Set it to ignore messages from X, Y and Z list
- Set it to retain some context for the replied message
  (e.g. Subject, Message-id, message contents)

you're *definitely* alright.

If you violate any of the above, you're liable to send messages to
the wrong people, confuse them, and|or start mail loops.

Now, anyone else like to suggest how to implement the above?

Cheers,
Dave

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