On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 11:58 +0200, fabian.jaeger at chungwasoft.com wrote: > I am away from the office until Monday, October 14 and your email will > not be forwarded. Hi Fabian, I've unsubscribed you from the openconnect-devel list because you're spamming anyone who posts to it with your autoreply message. I recommend that the owner of the vpnc-devel list does likewise, since I've received your messages from there too. It actually takes a *litany* of errors for your autoreply to do this; if the software you're using got *any* of these things right, then it wouldn't have caused this problem: - An autoreply should never response to list or bulk traffic, as identified by the 'Precedence: list' or 'List-Id:' headers in the messages it's responding to. - An autoreply should only ever send messages to the SMTP 'reverse-path' of the message which triggers it. In this case, that would be the openconnect-devel-bounces@ address which would have noticed your email 'bouncing' and automatically stopped sending mail to you without annoying anyone. Likewise for the messages to the vpnc-devel list, which would have reached the list software but not been broadcast to everyone on the list due to the misguided Reply-To: setting on that list. - An autoreply should always be sent with an *empty* reverse-path of its own, just like a bounce messages, so that it is less likely to cause a mail loop with other misbehaving autoresponders. If it'd at least got *this* bit right, then I for one wouldn't have received it. - And an autoreply shouldn't keep responding over and over again to the *same* targets. This is the eighth identical such message I've got from you, including the five that went to *all* vpnc-devel subscribers. I wonder what would happen if someone sent you a message claiming to be from *yourself*. Would your autoresponder go wild, responding to itself over and over again until it melts down? Tempted to try, but I won't... :) Please could I ask you to fix your autoresponder to comply with *all* of the above, before enabling it again if you resubscribe to this list. Thanks. -- dwmw2 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5745 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/attachments/20130930/eec3fa26/attachment.bin>
