Again - please do not top-post. If you don't know what that means,
google is your friend.
On 2013-05-22 12:42 PM, motty cruz <motty.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
thank you soo much Charles,
I was able to download that script you pointed in the last email,
You're welcome.
now this maybe dumb questions but I would like to deploy this script
on the spam filter level before reaching our imap/pop server. At the
spam filter level I don't have a database for users,
?? Think about what you just said. How are you going to control sending
Vacation messages for only specific users (some will have it enabled,
some won't), if you don't have access to the user database?
Also, you need to clarify what you mean by 'spam filter'. There are
certain spam checks that are very cheap and can be applied early in the
smtp transaction (before recipient verification).
But more expensive *content* filters should never be wasted on invalid
users, so should only be applied *after* recipient verification.
Determining whether or not to send a Vacation message is one of the (if
not *the*) *last* stages in email delivery, *long* after any
spam/content filters.
I was hoping to find something simple that can be implemented at the
spam filter level when email bound to user on vacation can be reply
automatically. maybe i dream about having this feature or i have seen
it before?
No, you're not dreaming, you're just not thinking through how it must work.
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Best regards,
Charles
