Re: No misdirected 'vacation' messages

> > - Users want both their and other people's absence/vacation messages
> >    to go to the right place (e.g. original sender of a mail rather than
> >    a whole mailing list).
> 
> This isn't a flaw in the mail protocol; it's a flaw in either (or both) the
> mailing list manager and the autoresponder involved.  autoresponders should
> (today) be replying only to the envelope sender address, and not responding to
> messages from mailing lists (which are clearly identified by various headers,
> including Mailing-List: and heuristics like Precedence:).
> 
> In short, it's a solved problem.

But not standardized. There are no RFC's that state this is the way autoresponders 
or mailing lists should behave.


Rgds,
-GSH