[BlueOnyx:10105] Re: Vacation message bugs

[Chuck Tetlow]

Oh!  That's odd.

I've worked with the .forward file at the CLI for years and know its behavior.  But I'd never used a autoresponder till I was pushed into BlueQuartz some years back.  Back then, the vacation message was problematic - sometimes causing the CPU load to go through the roof and stay there.  So I usually just disabled the feature and didn't work with it.  And so I didn't really understand where it was activated in the process flow.

So it seems you're saying the autoresponder is a Sendmail function - something activated inside Sendmail or called by Sendmail?  Wouldn't that mean that Sendmail or its configs are modified each time a user activates or deactivates their vacation message function?  That seems a little excessive, or high-level for a user-level requirement.  But I guess if its the only to make it work....

Thanks for the education Michael.

Chuck

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> 
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:56:24 +0200 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:10104] Re: Vacation message bugs

> Hi Chuck, 
> 
> > I think any other method would risk potentially revealing the address you 
> > have your mail forwarded to - something you might not want. 
> 
> That is a good point, Chuck. 
> 
> No, all in all Mon Chan's setup will not work and only one vacation message 
> will be sent. Which is good enough anyway, because why does the sender really 
> need to get two vacation messages after sending just one email to one 
> recipient? 
> 
> That's like overkill. 
> 
> The way it works is this: 
> 
> The email comes in. The recipient is mon1 at aaa.com. This recipient has an auto- 
> responder configured AND a forward to mon2 at aaa.com 
> 
> The auto-responder will happen first. It checks if the sender has already 
> received an auto-responder message in the last couple of days. If he has not, 
> then the auto-responder message is sent to the sender. 
> 
> In the next step the .forward kicks in. This happens AFTER sendmail is done 
> with the email and forwards it to the local mailbox of the recipient. 
> 
> The .forward does it's job and delivers a copy of the email to mon2 at aaa.com. 
> As this happens AFTER Sendmail is done with the email and the recipient mon2 
> is a local user on the same box, the auto-responder will not be triggered. 
> Because Sendmail doesn't "see" the message. So it cannot jump on it with the 
> auto-responder. 
> 
> This behaviour cannot be changed, so if you set up a chain of auto-responders 
> that bounce messages to each others, then the sender of the email will get 
> only one auto-responder message. From the first user that he emailed to. 
> 
> If the sender sends an email to multiple users with enabled auto-responders, 
> then that is a different story and he will get as many auto-responder messages 
> as applicable. 
> 
> -- 
> With best regards 
> 
> Michael Stauber 
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