Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca!quark!jeff From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Precedence: field Message-ID: <5156@orca.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 30 Oct 89 01:29:05 GMT References: Sender: nobody@orca.WV.TEK.COM Reply-To: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR Lines: 34 In article mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes: | |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:'? Well, it's not vacation's fault. Sendmail uses the precedence field. As I recall, there are a few "default" values that can be used. For example, if I say "Precidence: bulk" in my message, and it's sent to a site that can not deal with it, (unknown/no such user) it should silently trashcan the message, and not bounce it back to me. I've been running with this on the rc-cars mailing list for some time now, with NO bounced messages that I know of. (Unless the site trashcans it, then that's ok :-) -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles Utek Engineering, Tektronix Inc. jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM Maintainer of rc-cars mailing list. Requests to rc-cars-request@quark.wv.tek.com