mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) (10/30/89)
Under Unix there is a program called vacation. It is used to reply to incoming mail if you are on vacation. In the documentation it says that it won't reply to mail containing the header lines: Precedence: junk or Precedence: bulk (The idea is that mail from newsgroups would contain this field) The 'Precedence' field is not mentained in RFC822 but it seems useful and I want to use it (I maintain a BIG archive-server you see). Now I have found that many mailers get a bit upset if they see this little field. So, the question is: How do I get this field to work or is this a little bit of nonsence made up by the author of vacation who didn't bother to read RFC-822 and he should have used 'X-Precedence:'? -- Michael DeCorte // H215-546-0497 W386-8164 Fax386-8252 // mrd@clutx.bitnet 2300 Naudain St. "H", Phil, PA 19146 // mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) (10/30/89)
In article <MRD.89Oct29180553@image.clarkson.edu> mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes: | |Under Unix there is a program called vacation. It is used to reply |to incoming mail if you are on vacation. In the documentation it says |that it won't reply to mail containing the header lines: | |Precedence: junk |or |Precedence: bulk | |(The idea is that mail from newsgroups would contain this field) |The 'Precedence' field is not mentained in RFC822 but it seems useful |and I want to use it (I maintain a BIG archive-server you see). Now |I have found that many mailers get a bit upset if they see this little |field. | |So, the question is: How do I get this field to work or is this a |little bit of nonsence made up by the author of vacation who didn't |bother to read RFC-822 and he should have used 'X-Precedence:'? Well, it's not vacation's fault. Sendmail uses the precedence field. As I recall, there are a few "default" values that can be used. For example, if I say "Precidence: bulk" in my message, and it's sent to a site that can not deal with it, (unknown/no such user) it should silently trashcan the message, and not bounce it back to me. I've been running with this on the rc-cars mailing list for some time now, with NO bounced messages that I know of. (Unless the site trashcans it, then that's ok :-) -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles Utek Engineering, Tektronix Inc. jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM Maintainer of rc-cars mailing list. Requests to rc-cars-request@quark.wv.tek.com