I've just moved a discussion group from majordomo to Mailman and posted the first message to the group. So far, I've had one autoresponder message sent back. Thankfully, from what I can see, it only came to me and not to the list address, so hasn't started to loop.
But I've a problem over preserving members' privacy. The list of subscribers isn't available to other list members. So unless someone posts a message in the discussion, when their email address will show up in headers, I'm the only person who knows who's registered. And some people will be concerned that stays the case.
But the autoresponder message came from someone using their work email so it includes their name, job and contact details. It doesn't matter this time, as it came to me. But as soon as someone else posts to the group, I assume they'll get the same out of office message.
I can warn everyone about this and suggest that, if they don't want their details revealed, they only use an address that they won't set out of office. But is there anything else I can do? Privacy is important in our group so I would like to do what I can, rather than leaving it people who didn't realise about this vulnerable. Meantime, I may unsubscribe this person so no-one else gets her out of office message.
Not a problem with a loop, thankfully. (Yet? Maybe I'd better put some filters in pronto!)
I'd be grateful for advice.
Thanks
Clare