This is *not* an mis-configured auto-responder problem.
My user was over his mail quota. A warning-mesage was sent after
24 hours to the list-manager software which in return sent him a
message suggesting that I need to reconfigure my Exim boxes to
stop them sending warning-messages to the list-manager software!
Regards,
Nick.
On 6 Aug 01, at 18:09, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> * [Nicholas Blackaby on 06/08/01 13:30 +0100]
>
> > [...deleted...] Bear in
> > mind that this error report was processed by a computer that
> > cannot tell "User JAIME24 does not exist" from "Please note that
> > the Department of Microbiology will be closed from December 19 to
> > January 2" or "Attempts
>
> Do bear in mind that autoresponders should not be sent to
> MAILER-DAEMON / null return path messages, or those which are
> autoresponders or list mail themselves (with characteristic
> Precedence: junk - or bulk - headers)
>
> > messages while possibly useful to a human reader, should not be
> > sent in answer to a message coming from a mailing list (it is
> > very easy for the mail program to determine whether a message is
>
> Makes sense
>
> > The last sentence appears to suggest that Exim should be
> > configured (or at least configurable) not to send warning messages
> > to listserv software managers?!! My question was: is this possible
> > to do easily with Exim? If so how, please?
>
> No. It just says don't return vacation bots / autoresponses in
> response to list mail.
>
> > place! Moreover, since Listserv apparently does not use the
> > Precedence header, identifying Listserv messages isn't as simple as
> > it ought to be!
>
> Then tell them to use it.
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
>
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Nicholas Blackaby, ISD, UMIST.
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