If you use procmail to filter things, follow the instructions here: http://www.inch.com/info/tech/HOWTOS/vacation.html and make sure the line you add is the very last rule. This will avoid any possibility of bounces to lists. I'm on /usr/bin/vacation now, and it's kept me from bouncing... Just thought I'd add this nugget, as lots of places use procmail as the delivery agent, and it can be a pain to set up in your .procmailrc if you're not familiar with the syntax. Charles -- =-----------------= = | Charles Sprickman Internet Channel | | INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 | | spork@inch.com access@inch.com | = =----------------= On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Andrew Partan wrote:
No, the list is not fine. It should set the Precendence level. Your method would automatically assume that anyone who BCC'ed you was a mailing list.
That's OK - I don't want to send vacation mail to folks that BBC me either.
Useful rules (taken from 'man vacation'): No message will be sent unless login (or an alias supplied using the -a option) is part of either the ``To:'' or ``Cc:'' headers of the mail. No messages from ``???-REQUEST'', ``Postmaster'', ``UUCP'', ``MAILER'', or ``MAILER-DAEMON'' will be replied to (where these strings are case insensitive) nor is a notification sent if a ``Precedence: bulk'' or ``Precedence: junk'' line is included in the mail headers.
Anyhow, enough non-operation junk for now. --asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)