From: Geert Hendrickx (ghentelenet.be)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2007 - 16:08:37 CST

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On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:16:53PM +0100, mouss wrote:
> 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.

At least with BSD vacation(1) you can add aliases to the list of adresses
it should auto-reply for (with the -a flag), I guess other implementations
have similar functionality.

        Geert

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