13 Jul
2009
13 Jul
'09
3:38 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:21:39PM +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
This is to avoid auto-replies on messages not addressed directly to you (eg. sent via mailing lists).
a) Mailing lists must set Precedence: bulk
b) Many lists address you in To or CC.
c) Why shall no vacation to be sent, if I'm BCC'ed ?
d) You cannot enumerate all addresses for some accounts.
It's RFC recommended practice, see RFC 3834:
- Personal and Group responses whose purpose is to notify the sender of a message of a temporary absence of the recipient (e.g., "vacation" and "out of the office" notices) SHOULD NOT be issued unless a valid address for the recipient is explicitly included in a recipient (e.g., To, Cc, Bcc, Resent-To, Resent-Cc, or Resent- Bcc) field of the subject message. Since a recipient may have multiple addresses forwarded to the same mailbox, recipients SHOULD be able to specify a set of addresses to the responder which it will recognize as valid for that recipient.
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