[TAG] Good vacation mailers?

[René Pfeiffer]

On Jul 19, 2007 at 0059 +0100, Thomas Adam appeared and said:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:55:01AM +0200, Ren? Pfeiffer wrote:
> >  - vacation from Sendmail,
> 
> This is a classic and one I have been known to use (it's a very very old
> program you know), but...

Classic means stable, mostly. Which is good in this case, and vacation
works very well.

> > What are your favourite vacation mailers that cause the least trouble
> > with auto-generated emails? Do you have any preferences or experiences?
> 
> They're so annoying, it's untrue.  I hate these things, and they should be
> banished from the face of the Earth.  Not to mention a lot of the brain-dead
> ones repeatedly send the same stupid note of: [...]

That's the reason why I usually never use one. However building a
sensible autoresponder that avoids loops and doesn't talk on decently
formatted mailing lists shouldn't be too hard to implement (I know that
this is the perfect phrase to invite trouble). It's just that a lot of
people are used to having autoresponders because their neighbour has one
and so they need one too. Sysadmins know this vicious circle, that's why
I asked for experience with these beasts.

Best,
Ren?.

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