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Re: Out of office replies



On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Izak Burger <isburger@gmail.com> wrote:
> our own auto-reply exim router (as requested by clients) checks for about 16
> different headers

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 06:44, Dusty Wilson <dusty@hey.nu> wrote:
[snip]
> I understand that it takes both sides to fix the problem:  mailing
> list software to send the headers to be obvious that there shouldn't
> be an auto-reply, mailserver software to read the headers and
> therefore not auto-reply.

Bah!!   Headers change over time.   The simple and easy way to solve
OoO problems is for vacation responders to only reply to From:/Sender:
if (and only if) To: == $recipient.

-Jim P.


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