more than one Sieve autoreply per day?

[Phil Durbin]

On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Joseph Brennan wrote:
> --On Thursday, April 6, 2006 17:28 -0400 Phil Durbin  
> <pdurbin at berklee.edu> wrote:
>
>> My HR department is having a problem with their Sieve script.   
>> They  want
>> job applicants to receive an autoreply *every time* someone  emails
>> apply-hr at berklee.edu.
>
> Imagine if someone sent mail to apply-hr and had an equally
> uncontrolled autoreply.
>
> This is not a theoretical possibility.  There are some client-side
> implementations of vacation that reply to all (even bounces!) and
> I have had to clean up the results.  Sometimes we had to deny smtp
> connections from an IP temporarily to make it stop.

Good point.  Maybe there could be some throttling built into the  
"autoreply" extension that Ken says people have considered writing.   
10 autoreplies per day per address or something.  I understand your  
concern about mail loops.

Thanks, Ken, for confirming how the vacation extension works and for  
the suggested workaround.

Phil

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Phil Durbin
Senior Systems Analyst
Berklee College of Music
pdurbin at berklee.edu