[TriLUG] [OT] Apologies in advance

Brian Henning lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com
Sat Jun 9 22:20:31 EDT 2007


Given the lack of autoreplies from my work address coming to the list, it
looks like I set up my rules correctly, one way or another.  Thanks for the
suggestions, though!  It's an Exchange Out-Of-Office Assistant set up, for
the record.

Cheers,
~Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Jeremy Portzer
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 9:47 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] [OT] Apologies in advance
>
>
> Brian Henning wrote:
> > For work reasons I need an out-of-office auto reply for my absence next
> > week.  I'm trying to suspend my TriLUG subscription, but the website
> > doesn't want to load.  I apologize in advance if any autoresponses from
> > me come to the list.
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I suppose you may not receive this message, but the proper way to avoid
> this is to set up the auto-responder so it only replies when your email
> address is listed in the 'To:' field.  This won't occur with list emails
> like the TriLUG list.  It also helps avoid replies to spam messages
> which often don't have "To:" filled in correctly.  Most auto-responders
> built into modern email software work this way, except for Novell
> Groupwise which is the standard "bad citizen" in these waters (Microsoft
> has gotten it right for years, surprisingly).
>
> I think the web site not loading was due to a DNS problem, according to
> traffic on the IRC channel (it appears to be corrected now).  It would
> be nice if these problems were reported here on the discussion list from
> time to time, if anything just to provide useful insight for beginner
> and intermediate system administrators here who may learn from reading
> about about a troubleshooting process.
>
> --Jeremy
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