[Bldg-sim] Admin mail loop (was: Re: Your mail to rodrigo.cerqueira at mra.qc.ca)

Julien Marrec via Bldg-sim bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Tue May 9 01:59:32 PDT 2017


Jason,

Seems like this specific user actually has `Auto-Submitted: auto-replied`
in its email header. It would be good to at least include that check: If
this header is present, and its value is anything else than "no" (and maybe
"auto-forwarded" too to cover somewhat broken clients like Lotus Domino)
then do not send a post acknowledgment.

This header is specified in RFC 3834 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834)
and is used by Gmail for example.

This github wiki page is very interesting for going further:
https://github.com/jpmckinney/multi_mail/wiki/Detecting-autoresponders

*Worth noting that the real problem is the mailbot/AutoResponder used to
send the "Out of Office" message that's broken/misconfigured in the first
place* and not respecting the most basic rules: check for Auto-Submitted,
Precedence and List-* headers before sending an automated reply. Not
sending multiple OOF replies to the same recipient during the vacation (or
at least not more than once a day!) would also be a common courtesy...

Cheers,
Julien

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2017-05-09 7:45 GMT+02:00 Julien Marrec <julien.marrec at gmail.com>:

> Jason,
>
> I'd be happy to help checking the mailman settings and/or implementing a
> check to ensure this happen again (isn't it the second time this month or
> something?).
>
> Let me know what I can do to help!
>
> Julien
>
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> 2017-05-08 20:49 GMT+02:00 Jason Glazer via Bldg-sim <
> bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>:
>
>> Sorry about this mail loop. The user that set their vacation message to
>> send back to the mailing list has been set to be moderated so the looping
>> should be over. This was the same person's away message that caused an mail
>> loop on the eQUEST-users list earlier today.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
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