[170857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ID10T out of office responders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Fri Apr 11 03:28:17 2014
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:27:49 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <oXGY1n00o1Una3W01XGZia>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/11/2014 2:16 AM, Tei wrote:
> So....
>
> Suppose I configure my email to send a "Thanks, we have received your
> email, we will reply shortly in office hours.". Whats the Holy Headers
> so even poorly configured servers don't cause a AutoReply Storm?
> Googling, I found "Precedence", "X-Auto-Response-Suppress",..? For
> something like this, normally I would scan lots of opensource projects
> in www.google.com/codesearch (so I can learn from the projects with
> a large number of hours in production) , but seems down at the
> moment.
Any device or process that uses information from the infinitely
forgeable email headers is a process or device that can be subverted.
--
Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics
of System Administrators:
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to
learn from their mistakes.
(Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
