On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:21:39PM +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> This is to avoid auto-replies on messages not addressed directly to you
>> (eg. sent via mailing lists).
>
> a) Mailing lists must set Precedence: bulk
>
> b) Many lists address you in To or CC.
>
> c) Why shall no vacation to be sent, if I'm BCC'ed ?
>
> d) You cannot enumerate all addresses for some accounts.
>
It's RFC recommended practice, see RFC 3834:
- Personal and Group responses whose purpose is to notify the sender
of a message of a temporary absence of the recipient (e.g.,
"vacation" and "out of the office" notices) SHOULD NOT be issued
unless a valid address for the recipient is explicitly included in
a recipient (e.g., To, Cc, Bcc, Resent-To, Resent-Cc, or Resent-
Bcc) field of the subject message. Since a recipient may have
multiple addresses forwarded to the same mailbox, recipients
SHOULD be able to specify a set of addresses to the responder
which it will recognize as valid for that recipient.
Geert
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