Andreas, Andreas Bittner wrote:
its not even about firewalls, but about configuring mailclients/mailsystems properly.
decent mailclients support to distinguish what mails should get auto replies and what (automated, mailinglists, errormails, bulkmail) shouldnt be replied with outofoffice mails and the like...
especially big companies like ibm should be able to configure their systems properly, that bulk class email should never be replied to automatically.
Well, this is a well known defect of Lotus Notes... You will get much more autoreply messages on suse-domino@suse.com Another defect is that Notes breaks mail threading.. Thats why I read mailing lists with mozilla using my own mail server... :( Ingo
thats why we have the
Precedence: bulk
information in the mailinglist headers.
:(
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