Re: pointing virtual to user with vacation

From: Geert Hendrickx (no email)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2007 - 17:08:37 EST

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    On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:16:53PM +0100, mouss wrote:
    > good vacation programs do not sent an autoreply if the recipient is not
    > in the To or CC headers. some reasons:
    > - avoid sending vacations when the original recipient is a list.
    > - avoid puzzling the sender ("but I never sent mail to that foobar. must
    > be another spam...")
    > - it is not always desirable to expose "internal" aliasing.

    At least with BSD vacation(1) you can add aliases to the list of adresses
    it should auto-reply for (with the -a flag), I guess other implementations
    have similar functionality.

            Geert


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