Re: [Exim] Stopping out-of-office auto-reply mail loops

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著者: David Woodhouse
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To: Exim Users' Mailing List
題目: Re: [Exim] Stopping out-of-office auto-reply mail loops
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 13:26 -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Well since you're not supposed to be sending vacation replies to any
> message received from a mailing list in the first place (and there are
> usually a multitude of ways to detect and avoid doing so),


Hence the phrase 'failure mode'.

> then it's irrelevant whether or not the MLM software may have munged
> the reply-to: header or not.


That's an interesting opinion. Personally I like to consider the
potential failure modes, especially when we're talking just about
failures of ad-hoc heuristics such as list detection.

I accept that this is, however, merely my idiosyncrasy.

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dwmw2