Re: Attachment attack

Maybe now's a good time for me to also repeat my request
(and this time publically) that the CalMail team "fix" the
vacation auto-responder so that it does NOT reply to list or
alias mail.

From the CalMail Forwarding and Automatic Reply page:

   "The automatic reply/vacation message is sent
    if the message being received appears to be
    human generated; i.e. not sent by an automatic
    responder or "vacation" program, and not sent
    to a mailing list. "

There's also a KB note about this:
http://kb.berkeley.edu:80/cgi-bin/kb/answer.pl?question=kb206

We've obviously been seeing differently.

Responding to mailing list messages and those sent by alias
is not only potentially confusing/annoying to the recipients
of such auto-responses, but it also exposes information
about the owner of the auto-responding account.

Some people may prefer (unwisely) that their autoresponder
react to all such messages, but by default should only
respond to messages on which the user is directly mentioned
in the To: header (and arguably, the Cc:).

 - Christopher

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Today at 10:16 (-0700), Larry M. Jones wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:16:26 -0700
> From: Larry M. Jones <ljones@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
> To: micronet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> Cc: ucb-security@uclink.berkeley.edu
> Subject: [Micronet] Attachment attack
>
> Greetings,
>
> No, this is not about psychology. We are being bombarded with emails with
> attachments. MP3's, CPL's, Com's, EXE's. They come from OLAC, Sherry
> Rogers, Optometry Card, UCBackup, etc. Anybody know anything about
> this? Can CalMail stop this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
> $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
> Larry M. Jones
> School of Optometry, UC Berkeley
> 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
> Phone 510/642-8664, Fax 510/643-5109
> mailto:ljones@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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>
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