[ On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 21:06:45 (-0500), Dave C. wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Proper autoresponder behavior
>
> Ah, but if you buddy _forwarded_ you the message, there wont be any
> Recent-* headers.
You know what I mean. Don't pick nits that don't need picking.
> And the purpose of doing this is if the mail was supposed to have gone
> to you in the first place, and it was just addresses by the sender
> incorrectly.
You are in no place whatsoever to even begin to guess at why other
people might choose to use "resent-*" to forward a message. I use it
all the time to send messages of interest to my colleagues, for
example.
> Regardless of this, only messages initiated by direct human action
> should be sent to any header address - any addresses sent 'autonomously'
> under program control should always use the envelope address.
You really do need to learn more about e-mail systems and how humans use
them and how humans are coming to build automated tools to help them use
e-mail systems more effectively. We are not talking about anything
related to transport or even local delivery here. You are apparently
completely misunderstanding the difference between an automated mail
_user_ agent and an MTA. Autoresponders that generate DSNs from within,
or on behalf of, MTAs are completely different critters -- entirely
unrelated to the automated MUA functions we're discussing here.
> Think of it this way - lets say a company wanted to automatically mail
> out (I talking postal mail here) an acknowledgement to everone that sent
> them a mail. Lets say this cmpany has thousands of employees. Lets say
> all incoming letters are placed in a machine that automatically prints
> out the acknowledgements. This machine would (and SHOULD) scan the
> return address on the _envelope_, without opening the envelope itself.
No wonder you're confused. You've got completely the wrong analogy here!
An automated mail _user_ agent is like you _opening_ and answering your
colleague's personally addressed mail while he or she is on extended
leave.
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