inverse logic for vacation setup option more useful?

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Mon Sep 21 15:54:06 CEST 2009


* Thorsten Schnebeck <thorsten.schnebeck at gmx.net> [20090921 11:47]:
> when setting up a vacation auto-replier I have the option
> "Only react to mail coming from domain  (leave empty for all domains)"
> 
> Would'nt it be more useful to have an option like:
> "Only react to mail _not_ coming from domain" 
> 
> That way I could easily disable the auto-replier for internal mails.

The option was added to allow added privacy against mails from
outside:
- other people in your organisation (which can be too big or too
  distributed to know about everyone's vacation) will be informed.
- mails from outside can't be used to check if you're on vacation.
- domains which are misused as sender for spam will not be flooded
  with vacation answers.

Regards,
Thomas Arendsen Hein

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