** Sometime around 11:41 12/3/96, Todd Kover said:
>One other big reason (that I hadn't seen yet) that argues strongly for
>not changing the 'To:' field of messages to that of the user that mail
>is being delivered for, is that it greatly increases the chances that
>vacation will start replying to messages letting people know that the
>user isn't around.
ARRRRRRRRGGGGHHH!!! GOD, I HATE THOSE THINGS!
<pant pant pant>
Okay, now that I've gotten THAT out of my system: I usually try to
educate my users (whenever possible -- heh) that the vacation mailer
should be set to ***not*** reply to any messages that contain a
"Precedence: Bulk" tag in the header.
I know there are vacation mailers that aren't smart enough to do
this, but it's a good step whenever possible. On one of the private
lists I manage, a user's vacation mailer started a mail loop with
the server; luckily, I was around when it started, and set his account
to inactive. Mailers that do not support header parsing should simply
NOT be used for vacation messaging.
- Vince S.
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