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[Jeff Abbott <address@concealed>]

John,

 

For our system here, we have a global setting to flag all Lotus Notes out-of-office replies for moderation since it likes to misbehave and send autoreplies all over the place; our Exchange and IMAP servers either honor bulk messages properly, or send the autoreply only to the message’s sender and not the list, which is fine.  This is for Sympa 5.3.x, but I don’t believe 6 should be very different.  In the include.send.header file in the scenari directory, I’ve added:

 

# Block Lotus Notes vacation autoresponders

match([header->Subject], /[A-Za-z \/] is out of the office.*/) smtp,smime,md5 -> editorkey,quiet

 

I liked the idea of moderating them so that on the off chance that a false positive is flagged, the list owner can manually push the message through by approving the moderation.  Otherwise, they just filter out of the moderation queue after however long, never bothering anyone.  We used to have huge problems with Majordomo – not the least of which being, we were running Majordomo :-P – and this quieted all that ruckus down.

 

Hope that helps,

Jeff

 

From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of address@concealed
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:12 PM
To: Dan Pritts
Cc: <address@concealed>; address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Preventing a list owner from getting out of office replies

 

Thanks Dan. Is this something we can also do with a scenari ? I've been reading up on it and perhaps it can be done. Just not real familiar with the use of the scenari files if I want to only apply rules to a particular list or globally... Any ideas?

Thanks,
-John