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- From: ned@sigurd.innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: deliver and 'vacation' processing
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- Date: 22 Aug 92 00:37:59 GMT
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- The single best way to filter out list addresses from vacation processing
- is to use subaddressing on the address you use to subscribe to the list.
-
-
- For example, when I subscribed to the ietf mailing list, I told them to
- put me down under the address ned+list-ietf@innosoft.com. This gets back to
- me just fine, and I can use DELIVER to filter things based on the envelope
- To: address, which is ALWAYS this address for mail coming from this
- particular list.
-
- I use a different subaddress for each list. Not only does this give me
- a guaranteed way to do vacation processing right, it also gives me a way
- to file messages from lists to selected folders automatically. I do this
- sometimes for lists I'm not actively involved with.
-
- All this requires some foresight since you have to use a subaddress at
- the time you subscribe (or ask that your subscription be changed to a
- subaddress later). But it is the only way I know of that works correctly;
- in general the behavior of list exploders is just too unpredictable to make
- any other scheme practical.
-
- Ned
-