Bug 811186 - mails: Precedence: bulk
Summary: mails: Precedence: bulk
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cronie
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-10 10:56 UTC by Harald Reindl
Modified: 2012-04-12 11:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-04-12 11:18:43 UTC
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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!


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