[Bldg-sim] Admin mail loop

[Jason Glazer via Bldg-sim]

Julien

Thanks for info on the Auto-Submitted: auto-replied. I added 
a few additional "spam" filters to the BLDG-SIM and 
eQUEST-users mailing lists to catch "out of office", 
"auto-replied" and "post acknowledgment".

Hopefully this will cut down on the change of mail loops the 
future.

Jason


On 5/9/2017 3:59 AM, Julien Marrec wrote:
> 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 
> <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 
> <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
>
> --
> Julien Marrec, EBCP, BPI MFBA
> Owner at EffiBEM <http://www.effibem.com>
> T: +33 6 95 14 42 13
>
> LinkedIn (en <https://www.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec>)/| 
> /(fr <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec/fr>) :
>
> 2017-05-09 7:45 GMT+02:00 Julien Marrec 
> <julien.marrec at gmail.com <mailto: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
>
>     --
>     Julien Marrec, EBCP, BPI MFBA
>     Owner at EffiBEM <http://www.effibem.com>
>     T: +33 6 95 14 42 13 <tel:06%2095%2014%2042%2013>
>
>     LinkedIn (en
>     <https://www.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec>)/| /(fr
>     <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec/fr>) :
>
>     2017-05-08 20:49 GMT+02:00 Jason Glazer via Bldg-sim
>     <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
>     <mailto: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
>
>
>         -- 
>         Jason Glazer, P.E., BEMP, GARD Analytics, 90.1 ECB
>         chair, 209 chair
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