Re: [Exim] Use of $reply_to address in vacation mechanism

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Auteur: Dave C.
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Aan: Richard Gilbert
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Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Use of $reply_to address in vacation mechanism
Anytime you are generating autoreplies - I would strongly recommend
_always_ using $sender_address rather then $h_from:.

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Richard Gilbert wrote:

> We provide a central "intelligent" vacation facility for our users (thanks
> to John Horne at Plymouth for help with this). It uses the $reply_to
> expansion variable with the autoreply transport. I see a steady stream
> of...
>
> > Expansion of "$reply_address" in vacation_reply transport contains
> > non-printing characters
>
> ...caused by header fields like...
>
> > From: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCPzkbKEo=?==?ISO-2022-JP?B?IBskQjksOS8bKEo=?= 
> >       <mori@???>

>
> The non-printing characters are not in the active part of the address. Is
> there a way of referring to just the active part of the reply address? If
> not, would it be OK to use $sender_address, given that the vacation
> mechanism applies a whole set of conditions to restrict it to personal
> mail only. Or should I be setting print_topbitchars?
>
> Thank you in anticipation.
>
> Richard
>
> P.S. I sent this message to the list before lunch but although it was
> delivered to exim-colo-01.whoc.theplanet.co.uk it did not get back to me
> or make it into the archive. Apologies if you get it twice.
>
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> University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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