From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2007 - 14:16:53 CST

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watsonfongaboo.com wrote:
>
> I am using the vacation program to create an autoresponse for a given
> local user. I'll call it localuserserver.mydomain.com.
>
> The autoresponder works like it's supposed to if I write directly to
> localuserserver.mydomain.com.
>
> But I created a virtual alias pointing to it. I'll call it
> virtualvirtdomain.com. I pointed virtualvirtdomain.com to
> localuserserver.mydomain.com. But if I send mail to
> virtualvirtdomain.com, it doesn't autorespond.
>
> I'm not sure what because the headers of the sent message don't seem
> to satisfy any of the exceptions specified in the vacation FAQ I am
> reading:

good vacation programs do not sent an autoreply if the recipient is not
in the To or CC headers. some reasons:
- avoid sending vacations when the original recipient is a list.
- avoid puzzling the sender ("but I never sent mail to that foobar. must
be another spam...")
- it is not always desirable to expose "internal" aliasing.

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