email looping - autoresponders - how to stop it?
I have a problem. I created a list and dumped a bunch of emails into it. It sent an initial message to everyone - but one person is on vacation and the autoresponder responded. Now Mailman and the Autoresponder are sending messages back and forth.
How do I make mailman ignore autoresponders?
I have a problem. I created a list and dumped a bunch of emails into it. It sent an initial message to everyone - but one person is on vacation and the autoresponder responded. Now Mailman and the Autoresponder are sending messages back and forth.
How do I make mailman ignore autoresponders?
Only broken autoresponders are a problem, as the others will ignore Mailman.
Please share the specifics of the loop.
Does the list do Reply-To: munging?
Does the broken autoresponder put some header into its messages which makes it possible to unambiguously recognize them as coming from a robot?
Greetings, Norbert.
-- A member of FreeDevelopers and the DotGNU Steering Committee: dotgnu.org Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://thinkcoach.com Your own domain with all your Mailman lists: $15/month http://cisto.com
Quoting Norbert Bollow (nb@thinkcoach.com):
Only broken autoresponders are a problem, as the others will ignore Mailman.
Unfortunately, people insist on using that festering stink-hole of security violations known as Outhouse Excess, and the autoresponder on it is as broken as the rest of it. I've had to kick three people off my lists over the holidays because of these stupid "I'm out of the office" messages.
-- Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - spaf (1992)
Norbert Bollow wrote:
I have a problem. I created a list and dumped a bunch of emails into it. It sent an initial message to everyone - but one person is on vacation and the autoresponder responded. Now Mailman and the Autoresponder are sending messages back and forth.
How do I make mailman ignore autoresponders?
Only broken autoresponders are a problem, as the others will ignore Mailman.
Yes - but - I'm about to dump 20,000 names into a list and there are probably a LOT of broken autoresponders out there.
Please share the specifics of the loop.
I think the issue is that I dumped the names into the join box and it sent an initial message from "list-admin" and the autoresponder is replying to list-admin.
Does the list do Reply-To: munging?
No
Does the broken autoresponder put some header into its messages which makes it possible to unambiguously recognize them as coming from a robot?
I think it's a dumb responder.
Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote:
Yes - but - I'm about to dump 20,000 names into a list and there are probably a LOT of broken autoresponders out there.
Please share the specifics of the loop.
I think the issue is that I dumped the names into the join box and it sent an initial message from "list-admin" and the autoresponder is replying to list-admin.
You could change the list-admin alias to deliver to a mailbox, then add those 20,000 new subscribers, then wait a day or so, then change the list-admin alias back.
Greetings, Norbert.
-- A member of FreeDevelopers and the DotGNU Steering Committee: dotgnu.org Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://thinkcoach.com Your own domain with all your Mailman lists: $15/month http://cisto.com
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