[Logcheck-devel] Bug#489172: logcheck: please add Auto-Submitted header field to mailouts

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Lee Maguire <lee-debian at hexkey.co.uk> [2008-07-03 19:49:58 CEST]:
> Please add the header "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" to mails
> generated by logcheck.  This header should be supported by many email
> autoresponders and should prevent the need to set up logcheck specific
> rules for "vacation"-type autoresponders.

 "should be supported" - how many do so already? It's a proposed
standard, i.e. it's not one yet. Actually I'm not really aware of that
header being out in the wild? What happened to the good old Precedence
header?

 I'm not really convinced about what the gain of adding that header
will be. What tools have support for it already? What's the benefit of
adding it (besides that it looks fishy as actual proper header without
the X- prefix to me)?

 Thanks for any further informations you can offer.
Rhonda