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[Serge Aumont <address@concealed>]

Hart, Brian R. wrote:
> So I'm not sure if I just have missed a setting in Sympa somewhere or  
> if it requires some sort of customization that I'm not aware of.  I've  
> been basically ignoring the problem that when people are out of office  
> or have vacation responders on the responses tend to go out to the  
> entire list.  Sometimes it's just to the first message they receive  
> but in some cases it's to every message.
>
> Is it possible to create some sort of filter in sympa to throw away  
> messages with 'out of office' or 'vacation' in the subject line?  We  
> have another list server in another department that is a commercial  
> product that does this but I can't seem to figure it out in sympa.   
> We're currently running 5.4.7 and if an update fixes this I'd be happy  
> to do that as well.  Thanks in advance!
>   
Sympa should refuse messages with Auto-Submited:  header (rfc5436) . The
problem is that some responder don't include this header. If you want to
filter this kind of messages you may edit send.include scenario and add
rules such as :

match([header->Auto-Submited],/auto\-/)   smtp,smime,md5    -> reject,quiet


See
http://www.iana.org/assignments/auto-submitted-keywords/auto-submitted-keywords.xhtml

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