[BlueOnyx:07652] Re: Limiting auto-responses

[Chuck Tetlow]

I agree Michael.  The "Vacation Message" is troublesome and a real pain in the butt.

BUT!  We have a lot of customers who want to use it, and get upset when we disabled it.  One company actually took their business to someone else when we wouldn't provide ability to use the vacation messages.  Needless to say, we quit disabling the ability about the same time we moved from BQ to BX.

Chuck

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> 
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 00:45:58 +0200 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:07630] Re: Limiting auto-responses

> Hi Darrell, 
> 
> > I have a question about Blue Onyx's "vacation" auto-response messages.  Is 
> > it possible to somewhere configure a blacklist of email addresses NOT to 
> > send an auto response to? 
> 
> Not really. Everyone that emails a user with a vacation message services 
> turned on, will get one auto reply . Then he gets whitelisted for (I think) 
> eight days by getting added to a database that is kept in the users home 
> directory. This database is in DB3 format. 
> 
> Unless you hack a little Perl script together to automatically add whitelisted 
> addresses to that database, it won't work. 
> 
> In any case: Vacation messages are crap. They're a leftover from the "good old 
> days" of the internet and nowadays are more troublesome than anything else. 
> 
> -- 
> With best regards 
> 
> Michael Stauber 
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