Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 18:18:42 -0500
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com>
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At 01:58 PM 6/3/2002 -0400, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>The Sieve vacation draft (now expired) explicitly mandates that the
>vacation response messages be sent to the envelope from address
>("Return-path"). In practice, we haven't had any complaints about
>this behavior.
I suspect you haven't been sampling adequately. Most of the people I know
are quite irritated with getting such notices, unless they have explicitly
cited the recipient in To or CC.
I'm sorry, let me rephrase: "In practice, we haven't had any
complaints about vacation responses going to the envelope from address
and not the reply-to address."
Vacation messages to the envelope from address are easier to reason
about. I suspect they're much less likely to cause mail loops.
>We do receive complaints about the check for the recipient's address
>in the To/Cc header lines.
Complaints from whom? The people who get vacation notices when they send
to a mailing list?
Complaints from the people who set the vacation messages and want
their messages to go to everybody who sends them mail directly or
indirectly. I hate vacation messages from mailing lists, and I agree
with the To/Cc test for responses. But not everyone agrees with us.
Luckily I don't sell my software and don't have to be responsive to
customer complaints.
Larry