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Re: Postponing Your Mail
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: 2001 Apr 04, 9:24 PM
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: 2001 Apr 04, 9:24 PM
> When being away from your Email account for any time, setting your ISP > server to auto-reply, or closing it doesn't work for any Mail list. It > creates a lot of bounced mail error messages. > > My policy is if an account bounces more than )5) five days, it geta > UNSUBSCRIBED> The solution is to mark Navigation-L mail with a "Precedence: Bulk" header. Most autoresponders will not answer messages that have that header. It's a feature specifically designed so that vacation programs won't bother mailing lists. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ "Du kannst dem Leben nicht mehr Tage geben, aber den Tag mehr Leben." -- source unknown, attribution requested (Goethe?) (You can't give your life more days, but you can give your days more life.)