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[David Sowder]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Ohmes, Matt wrote:
>Wonderful!  I spent much too much time yesterday trying to trick my Out of
>Office Assistant into not sending the message.  I was unsuccessful, but if
>the server software eats up the message, that's good enough for me. :-)

My guess is that the client was sending the message directly to the 
original sender because the "Precedence: bulk" header was apparently not
being sent by the old software.

As for Chris' comment that Outlook is well behaved software, my perception
(from observation since I never use any of the Outlook products) is that
this is a fortunate exception to Outlook seeming to generally behave
annoyingly.  But I will also qualify that statement with the fact that I
primarily use Pine on a unix box and generally dislike Microsoft for
several, probably greatly discussed, reasons.

In any case, I'm glad to hear that Outlook and our new mailing list
software appear to get along at least on this issue.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Sharman [mailto:Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:46 AM
>To: Matt.Ohmes@cognos.com
>Cc: Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: Auto replies
>
>
>
>David Sowder said:
>>It looks like the new software does what I thought it would.  It uses the
>>"Precedence: bulk" header.
>>
>>I suspect that a big part of the autoreplies could be from badly behaving
>>autoreply programs, but perhaps that is a misconception on my part.  We
>>shall see... :)
>
>Matt said:
>>Actually, I would LOVE to find a way to prevent my "out of office" message
>>being sent to the two list servers I belong to.  Does anyone know how to
>>prevent Outlook (our standard) from sending auto-reply messages to specific
>>people or groups?  I have looked at every "Rules Wizard" option I can think
>>of and have found nothing.
>
>Well, I'm inclined to think it's fixed - thanks very much David.
>I heard nothing from yesterday's posting. Previously I was getting half a
>dozen
>'out of office' messages, mostly from Cognos, and nothing from another list
>I
>belong to. Outlook must be well behaved :o
>
>Chris
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David R. Sowder
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