Query regarding auto-reply mechanism
Hi , I have a doubt regarding auto-responding Suppose I have posted my confidential information on mailing list, and the list setting is neither "accept" nor "discard" any mails having confidential information.Whether it should be posted or not depends on the user .So I had to ask which one approach is better? 1.Including a command like "accept_confidential" at start of message or subject. or 2.Sending the mail, getting an auto-reply from reply-bot like " your mail contains confidential info. reply with "confirm" ".
Please ignore the above mail, it was sent on 5th march, i dont know why it came today .
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Aanand Shekhar Roy writes:
Please ignore the above mail, it was sent on 5th march, i dont know why it came today .
These things happen in Internet mail, through no fault of anybody in particular. Don't worry about it. The courtesy notice is helpful though, thank you!
On the other hand, figuring out *why* it happened on a Mailman list would be a good exercise for a new Mailman developer. :-)
On 03/11/2015 11:52 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Aanand Shekhar Roy writes:
Please ignore the above mail, it was sent on 5th march, i dont know why it came today .
These things happen in Internet mail, through no fault of anybody in particular. Don't worry about it. The courtesy notice is helpful though, thank you!
On the other hand, figuring out *why* it happened on a Mailman list would be a good exercise for a new Mailman developer. :-)
Actually, It didn't happen 'on a Mailman list'. And it did happen also to the follow-up message and Steve's reply.
The issue is that the server's MTA has some rules for holding or discarding messages based on regexp matches against the message's headers.
In this case, the string auto-reply in the Subject: caused the messages to be put in Postfix's HOLD queue where they sat for some time before being released. You will note I changed that to auto_reply in this reply.
The particular regexp should probably be more restrictive. Presumably it is intended to catch "out of office" type messages. I'm not sure what a better regexp would be, but I don't control the Postfix configuration on this server anyway.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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