Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Precedence: field Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 23:05:58 GMT Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 29 Under Unix there is a program called vacation. It is used to reply to incoming mail if you are on vacation. In the documentation it says that it won't reply to mail containing the header lines: Precedence: junk or Precedence: bulk (The idea is that mail from newsgroups would contain this field) The 'Precedence' field is not mentained in RFC822 but it seems useful and I want to use it (I maintain a BIG archive-server you see). Now I have found that many mailers get a bit upset if they see this little field. So, the question is: How do I get this field to work or is this a little bit of nonsence made up by the author of vacation who didn't bother to read RFC-822 and he should have used 'X-Precedence:'? -- Michael DeCorte // H215-546-0497 W386-8164 Fax386-8252 // mrd@clutx.bitnet 2300 Naudain St. "H", Phil, PA 19146 // mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------