I know the subject of vacation programs have come up a few times in the past. I'm curious what people may be using to provide a reasonable auto-response. The problem that I have seen popping up is the spammers are sending mail directly to the users address. The From line is forged. The spam is staying under the radar on the various anti-spam measures in place so it gets delivered to the user as a real message. The vacation program then responds to this junk mail. In a few cases the person at the other end of the forged address reports the vacation message as spam to some RBL site. The RBL site gives the option to respond that this is, or isn't real, and wants us to take action. If we don't respond to them, they add our site to the blacklist. So far it's been managable, but I do see that things are going to need to change before long. My current vacation program is based on the Unix vacation rules. Only respond to mail that you are listed on the To: or cc: lines. No response to mailing lists, precedence: bulk or junk, some black-listed addresses, etc. Many thanks. --Gene ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
