Re: [suse-security] Vacation and out of office autoresponders

I know of several companies that have configured their firewalls so the "Vacation and out of office" don't go beyond their corporate boundaries.

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. thats why we have the

Precedence: bulk

information in the mailinglist headers. :(