[66104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Fri Dec 26 09:08:56 2003
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: suresh@outblaze.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <slrnbun1ei.ura.linux@frodo.hserus.net>
(suresh@outblaze.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian)'s message of
Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:50:26 GMT)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:07:25 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Friday 26 December 2003, at 0 h 50,
suresh@outblaze.com (Suresh Ramasubramanian) wrote:
> > There are several other tests to perform (if you are a reasonable program,
> > that is), before sending an "Out of the office" message. An obvious one is to
> > see wether your human owner is mentioned in the To: field. Unless the list
> > explodes the messages in one explicit copy per recipient, this is enough.
>
> Of course, that doesn't work with a list that doesn't set reply-to the list.
Why? There is Mail-Followup-To and you can set Reply-To yourself. And you can
always edit your headers (or have a software which can do it automatically
like mutt).
And the purpose was not to suppress *every* O-o-O message (they are very
useful), just to lower the number and increase the average relevance.
