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Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply"

2001-06-29 08:10:06
- since the tool for filtering "Out of Office AutoReply" on the origin will
not be developed in short time, and there will be for sure another users
using "Out of Office AutoReply", the smart mailing-list mail-server should
apply a rule filtered by subject because the subject field seems to be
always the same "Out of Office AutoReply:".

this doesn't work, because the "out of office autoreply" messages are
not sent via the list server - they are sent directly to the author of 
the subject message. 

This is arguably another problem with such messages - they should probably 
go to the envelope return address (from the SMTP MAIL FROM command or the
return-path header field) rather than to the author's address (from the
From header field).

Keith