[Mailman-Users] Mailman and auto-responders?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:45:42PM -0800, Paul Thomas wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Is Mailman vulnerable to mail-loops caused by auto-responders
> that are configured to look like an email sent by a person?
 
Yes.

Autoresponders are not supposed to answer mails with a precedence of list or
bulk, and they are supposed to answer to the envelope sender.
That said, some happily ignore precedence, and will answer to the header
from, and the reply-to if there is one.

If you don't do reply-to munging (the default for many good reasons), you're
ok,  but if  you do  do reply-to  munging,  you run  the risk  of having  an
autoresponder create a loop with your list.

Marc
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