At 05:58 04/25/2002 Thursday, Martin Helin wrote: >I just joined this list and apologize if this question has been covered >recently (in which case I will start digging in the digest). I could not >find an answer to it in the LISTSERV documentation either. > >Is there are a way to direct automatic out of office type of replies from >list members (to the sender of a message) to the list owner(s), for example? Not really -- the list software is "out of the loop" at the point at which the misconfigured receiver's mail client "decides" to auto-ack an OOO. [A small semantic correction: it is NOT the case that even with properly working and configured lists that "bounce" mail is necessarily sent to list owners. Instead, it is really the result of processing the ERRORS-TO= list definition keyword which often does go to list-owners BUT NOT NECESSARILY. It could just as easily be directed elsewhere.] /Pete >I have been running two lists (now using version 1.8d) for over 10 years >but this is the first time annoyed users (= 2...) would like to get rid of >the automatic vacation replies. You could "force" those malware recipients to DIGEST or INDEX >Naturally something can be done on the member side (e-mail client) also but >with over 2 000 list members I am very reluctant to start giving any advice >on how to configure various e-mail clients so that automatic replies will >not be sent to list (senders). "me too." /Pete