Bug 811186

Summary:	mails: Precedence: bulk
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Harald Reindl <h.reindl>
Component:	cronie	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	mmaslano, pertusus, tmraz
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Description Harald Reindl 2012-04-10 10:56:13 UTC

mails triggered by scripts are containing "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" header which is good, but they also should contain "Precedence: bulk" because some auto-reply implementations are looking at this header to supress replies 

 * Precedence: bulk
 * Auto-Submitted: auto-generated

i love the current behavior writing a script and if it generates any output get a mail to the admin-group, but it would be nice if one of the group is at holidays not trigger replies

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2012-04-10 14:15:03 UTC

From RFC3834
<citation>
A response MAY include a Precedence field [I4.RFC2076] in order to
discourage responses from some kinds of responders which predate this
specification.  The field-body of the Precedence field MAY consist of
the text "junk", "list", "bulk", or other text deemed appropriate by
the responder.  Because the Precedence field is non-standard and its
interpretation varies widely, the use of Precedence is not
specifically recommended by this specification, nor does this
specification recommend any particular value for that field.
</citation>

I guess it can't break anything if I add a line into do_command.c file.

Comment 2 Harald Reindl 2012-04-10 14:20:28 UTC

this would be very nice!

most auto-responders and mailing-lists are using this header
even postfix mailing-list and Wietse Venema is really a
hardliner in context of smtp

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2012-04-12 11:18:43 UTC

Thanks for idea. I pushed it as commit 1d42d62a372125fe9d5c97136dff042d2f2aba79

I'll add it into the next cronie release.

Comment 4 Harald Reindl 2012-04-12 11:25:17 UTC

thank you!