[Dovecot] Auto Vacation replies again

[CJ Keist]

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Thank you all for the input and the rfc url.  To my surprise the central
IT dept. is going to make the change to allow the envelope from to be
empty!  I'm pretty sure it was the rfc url I gave them to help my cause.
So I'm reverting the code back to the original state.



Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 8/12/2008, CJ Keist (cj.keist at colostate.edu) wrote:
>> I understand what you are saying in trying to keep a
>> vicious cycle of auto-replies responding to each other.  But in our
>> environment I don't have any choice as our central virus/spam email
>> gateway will can any message without a valid from address in the headers.
>>    I will forward this on to our central IT guys that maintain the email
>> gateway, but I don't hold much hope that they will listen  ;) .
> 
> My advice? Throw away the gateway and find one that works correctly.
> 
> Doing this results in your users NOT getting 99.99% of valid/legitimate
> DSN notifications (since they all use the NULL sender, as prescribed by
> the RFCs).
> 
> Blocking all messages with a NULL sender is not only violating the RFCs,
> and will possibly result in your getting on certain blacklists, like
> dsn.rfc-ignorant.org, it is lazy and dumb.
> 
> But, to each his own...
> 

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C. J. Keist                     Email: cj.keist at colostate.edu
UNIX/Network Manager            Phone: 970-491-0630
Engineering Network Services    Fax:   970-491-5569
College of Engineering, CSU
Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301

All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness'
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