out of office notices

[Daniel Morissette]

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Because the new list now has the list e-mail address as the "reply-to
> address", out of office notices come to the list. They used to go only to
> the person posting the message.
>
> Can anything be changed on the listserver so that out of office notices
> don't make it to the list? Or is this inevitable?
>

Another reason may be that this new list server doesn't seem to set the
"Precedence: bulk" that mailman and other list servers usually set in
the email headers. Auto-reply programsusually look for that kind of
stuff too before sendinga reply. The header from this listserv contains
"Precedence: fm-user", does anyone know what that means?

Here is an excerpt from the man page of the one and only "vacation" program:

   "No message is sent if the `To:' or the `Cc:' line does not list
    the user to whom the original message was sent or one of  a
    number  of  aliases for them, if the initial From line includes
    one of the strings -request@, postmaster, uucp, mailer-daemon,
    mailer or -relay or if a `Precedence: bulk' or `Precedence: junk'
    or  `Precedence:  list'  line  is  included  in  the header.
    The search for special senders is made case-independant."

Daniel
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