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Re: No misdirected 'vacation' messages

2004-02-05 08:26:57

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Martin Duerst wrote:

- Users want both their and other people's absence/vacation messages
   to go to the right place (e.g. original sender of a mail rather than
   a whole mailing list).

This is too specific for user goals. However

 - Users want to be able to specify (in standard way) information about 
temporary and/or permanent changes to their email configuration and 
timeframe for these changes

This includes vacation messages with ability to specify when email needs 
to be resend and email system could then do it automaticly then if user 
allows it and if its within timeframe for delivery of that mail. 

Also if you change email, it would be nice if your old provider could 
provide standard service to redirect to new email address. Then special 
reply would be send and email could redelivered (I see it as special answer
during MAIL session transmission - i.e. actual email is not even sent to
the other end and there is no need for that end to try to forward it 
which puts primary task on that forwarding server which is why many ISPs 
choose to not forward emails for users that quit - its somewhat resource 
consuming for them). Additionally it would allow for automated changed to 
address book in case of changes to email address of your friends, etc.

Additionally this can accomplish other changes such as that when mailbox 
is almost full, the error reported could be that temporarily messages of 
large size would not be accepted (and time specified is when some cleanup 
program would run on the server). Knowing timeframe when the redelivery 
should be attempted saves resources and extra connections in situations 
like that.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net



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