[Mailman-Users] Detecting Autoresponders

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 28, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Karl Zander wrote:

> Is there something specific Mailman is looking for to detect  
> autoreponders, like Out of Office messages?  We had an incident this  
> weekend with an autoresponder sending an out of office message over  
> and over and over....to a list.
>
> This particular autoresponder is not known to be broken.  Its worked  
> well in the past with Mailman.

If it's replying to message with a Precedence: header (and any value)  
it's broken.

> I note the header of the message from the autoresponder contains
>
> X-Autogenerated: Reply

Can anybody find a reference for the semantics of X-Autogenerated?   
I'd be willing to add a rule for this but I'd need to find a reference.

Note too my Replybot program <http://launchpad.net/replybot> for an  
automatic email reply system done right. :)

-Barry

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