On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 23:31:49 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca> writes:
> > Can someone *pleaaaaase* temporarely remove
> > "Bob Powell" <Bob@hotchkiss.org>
> > from the list so we do not get a vacation message for every message one
> > posts.
>
> I complained to Marc about that a week or more ago, but I guess he
> doesn't want to bounce Bob from the lists just for being incompetent
> about configuring "vacation". I've set my own mailserver to deny
> connections from hotchkiss.org ...
He isn't using software appropiate as a vacation responder.
It is responding to the wrong address. Delivery status messages (such as
vacation messages) should go to the envelope sender address, not addresses
in the message headers.
The responder has replied to messages that didn't explicitly list his
email address in the recipient headers (as well as having several other
features indicating they were list messages rather than messages specifically
for him).
I also received several notifications from his bot over a couple of hours.
Normally vacation bots don't send notices more than about once every two weeks.
