[ltp] OT: proper auto-responders

[Mario Butter]

There is an RFC with guidelines for auto-responders. rfc3834

"An automatic responder MUST NOT blindly send a response for every
message received."

and

"Personal and Group responses that are intended to notify the sender
of a message of the recipient's inability to read or reply to the
message (e.g., 'away from my mail' or 'too busy' notifications) SHOULD
NOT issue the same response to the same sender more than once within a
period of several days, even though that sender may have sent multiple
messages.  A 7-day period is RECOMMENDED as a default."

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> It is well known (for more than 15 years!) that, when implementing
> "vacation"-style auto-responders, you MUST keep track of recipients, and you
> MUST send the auto-response only once per recipient per auto-reply.
> Sometimes a "per large time period" is also added.
>
> If the auto-reply for Lotus notes does so for *every* message, without
> tracking recipients, it deserves being called a menace.

-- 
Mario

http://mario.silent-tower.org/