I'm setting up a vacation message section in my Exim filter
(personal, not system filter) which I've never bothered doing
before. TFM says that the default for "mail" or "vacation" is
$reply_address which takes notice of a Reply-To header if present.
I'd much rather err on the overcautious side and not send a
vacation message if there's any risk at all it would hit a mailing
list. (I'm already filtering off stuff destined for mailing lists
to different files but I'm paranoid and mailing list configuration
changes sometimes change the generated headers and end up in my
inbox.) Since a few mailing lists I'm on have the Reply-To set to
the list address, it would seem to be safest to treat the vacation
reply as as "error message" and send it to the envelope sender:
vacation to $return_path
Is this right? (There's also a $sender_address variable which is
kinda-sorta like $return_path?)
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@???>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services
