[Mailman-Users] Editing the from address on mailman autoresponse

[Gretchen Stanton]

Ah.  Right.  Of course.

And given the amount of garbage that comes to this mailing list, what you 
describe is really what they want even tho they don't know it.

Hmm.  I will have to reconsider my options.

Thanks again.



At 01:34 PM 5/29/2005, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>Gretchen Stanton wrote:
> >
> >It is quite possible that I am misunderstanding the intended 
> functionality of
> >this feature.  I just need a reply sent to everyone who send to the list 
> that
> >says we'll get back to them.  Currently when I send a message to the 
> list, I
> >get the auto-response back from jobs2-bounces at aurora.qrc.com with the
> >appropriate response text I entered and the message is delivered to the 
> list
> >subscribers.  Doesn't seem like anything bounced to me which is why I 
> did not
> >think that the 'bounces' tag made sense.
>
>I think your understanding of the autoresponse feature is OK. The
>sending of the autoresponse from the -bounces address is not because
>any bounce has been involved yet. It is to handle the case where the
>autoresponse itself might bounce. You don't want this bounce to go to
>the list posting address, you want it to go to the -bounces address so
>it can be properly handled as a bounce.
>
>Consider what might happen if I have set the typical "out of office"
>responder on my address, I post to your list, your autoresponse comes
>back to me and my autoresponse goes back to you. Do you want that to
>go to your list? Suppose further your autoresponder has no grace
>period. You send me a second autoresponse in response to my
>autoresponse and I autorespond to that ...
>
>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
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