[Mailman-Users] Vacation email loop

Greg Ward gward at mems-exchange.org
Sat Nov 3 00:37:12 CET 2001


On 02 November 2001, Clark Cooper said:
> I had a situation where a user on one of my lists had the vacation utility
> turned on and a posting to the list resulted in a looped email because the
> vacation email response was then posted and on and on.  The reply-to posts
> option has been set to "the list" and I would like to keep this
> setting.

I believe that "stupid autoresponders" is one of the canonical reasons
why reply-to "the list" is Considered Harmful.  IOW, if you insist on
having reply-to "the list", you will probably have to live with this
annoyance.

        Greg
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