Re: [Exim] Proper autoresponder behavior

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Mark Morley
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Proper autoresponder behavior
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Mark Morley wrote:

> > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> >
> > Indeed. But have you seen what some user agents actually do? Not to
> > mention some MTAs. A while back I got some people to do experiments, and
> > all sorts of things turned up. Like amalgamating sets of resent-
> > headers. I wouldn't trust the order one little bit.
> >
>
> True. I suppose there's no reliable method of determining which resent-*
> headers you'd use. Given that, it's probably best to ignore them completely.
>
> But I do see Greg's point. If I e-mail something to my buddy, and he resends
> it to someone else without my knowledge, I'm not sure that *I* should be
> getting this third party's vacation message. But I guess it could be argued
> that my buddy should be forwarding such messages, not resending them.


And if their autoresponder uses the envlope sender of his message, then
he will get it, not you.

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> Mark
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