[Asterisk-Dev] I'm sorry

[Kevin Walsh]

David Woodhouse [dwmw2 at infradead.org] wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 01:22 +0200, Sergio Serrano wrote:
> > I'm sorry for my autoresponder holiday message. It has activated
> > without my permission and I have solved the problem.
> >
> Please don't just turn the autoresponder off -- make sure the software
> is fixed _properly_ so that it won't ever happen again.
> 
> It should never send a response to any address other than the SMTP
> reverse-path of the mail it receives, and in this case that would have
> been the list software at 'asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com' instead
> of the list itself. 
> 
> Also, it should always sends its responses with an empty reverse-path of
> their own, to prevent any further responses or bounces from being
> triggered. 
> 
It MUST NOT respond to any article where the "Precedence" header is set
to "list", "bulk" or "junk".  All mail lists should have an appropriate
value in the "Precedence" header, so that is a simple rule to follow.

>
> It's generally best not to post HTML mail either.
>
Agreed - apart from the "generally" bit.


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