The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Rafal Szkup <address@concealed>]

Under "Sending/Receiving" for each list there is an option:

"Reject mail from automatic processes (crontab, etc)? (reject_mail_from_automates_feature) (default)"

This seems to be working fine for us (being set as "off").

On 2/02/23 00:35, Peter Polkinghorne (Staff) wrote:

We run a Sympa installation at the University and we have come across an issue where users have set up crontabs to email mailing list.

 

The emails are sent with header:

Auto-Submitted: auto-generated

 

This is rejected by Sympa as message appears to be auto-reply (see: sympa/ProcessIncoming.pm at main · sympa-community/sympa · GitHub)

 

However cron is following: RFC 3834: Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail (rfc-editor.org) in labelling as such.

 

The only way round, we havefound, is to have the crontab explicitly email the response, rather than relying on cron to do.

 

What do others do?

 

I do not think this is a bug in Sympa, just a clash of standard vs detecting mail loops & out of office messages.

Peter Polkinghorne
Senior Systems Officer (Storage and Virtualisation)
T +44(0)1895 267070 | E address@concealed Brunel University London
Information Services Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
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Please note for the moment, I am working from home apart from Tuesday & Friday and am working 4 days a week, with my day off being Thursday usually.

 

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Rafal Szkup | IT Technical Lead  | Senior DevOps Engineer | The University of Auckland
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