Re: "Out of Office autoreply" courtesy

Posted by Adrian Smith-6 on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Out-of-Office-autoreply-courtesy-tp6917499p6926865.html

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On 22/10/2011, at 3:40 AM, Martin Wessendorf wrote:

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> By now, I expect everyone has deduced that it's a bad idea to be subscribed to a list like this after you've set up an "out-of-office-autoreply".  Please, if you have any doubts, unsubscribe from the list till you return.  The link at the top of each posting will allow you to do that.
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> Martin Wessendorf

Actually it should "just work".

If the list server is correctly configured and the email server sending the auto-responder is correctly configured then no auto-replies should go to the list.

So the people who need to be take a look here are the list-admin (is the list setting the correct headers) and the sys admins at UCSF (have they configured their email server auto responder settings to correctly ignore list posts).

Given the low frequency with which this occurs (in terms of individuals - not in terms of the number of emails!) on this list compared to others I'm on (cytometry mailing list) I suspect the problem may be at the UCSF end.

(Alternatively, maybe Ben left a auto responder running on his email client and left his computer running…?)

Adrian