At 8:38 AM 7/11/95, Jean Charest wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, Robert Hart wrote:
>
>> Is it possible for Majordomo to KILL the result of a subscriber using the
>> vacation program (or something similar) as when users do so, it creates
>> endless messages from that user ....
>>
>> ie message gets sent to user, vacation replies, list sends "vaction"
>> message to all subscribers (including the user who has enabled vacation) and
>> vaction replies to this as well AND SO ON ADD INFINITUM!
>
>I have checked the man pages for both the HP-UX 9.05 and SunOS 4.1.3 and
>in both cases it states that vacation will send "the vacation message"
>only if the To: or Cc: line contains a substring which matches the users
>login name. Further, vacation will not reply to any messages with a
>"Prececence: bulk" header (as well as other headers, see below). It also
>states that vacation will send a message only once per week to each user.
>
>So either the vacation program does not do what it advertises or the
>users have modified it's behaviour. In my case, the vacation program does
>succesfully trap the "bulk" messages according to the specs.
Two different vacation programs. Jean is discussing the standard modern
BSD-based UNIX /usr/ucb/vacation program. I think Robert was discussing
vacation programs in general (not necessarily just the UNIX vacation
program), which are now available in many different mail systems. The UNIX
vacation programs "do it right", as Jean says. Unfortunately, lots of the
others don't.
>However your point is good. Can MD trap these kinds of messages in cases
>where the vacation program does not appear to be behaving?
How is it supposed to recognize them?
-Brent
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