[rt-users] Overriding Precedence Header

[Jason Grigsby]

Thanks Jesse. This is exactly the information that I needed. :-)

-Jason


On Jun 29, 2004, at 7:44 PM, Jesse Vincent wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Jason Grigsby wrote:
>>> No. That's not actually quite right. RT _doesn't respond_ to incoming
>>> mail with a precendece of bulk. Other than that it continues to act 
>>> on
>>> it. Setting the precedence header to "bulk" is a pretty widely 
>>> honored
>>> convention for saying "This email message was generated by a machine,
>>> not a human. If you're a machine (like a vacation autoresponder), you
>>> don't want to reply to the sender, as you're likely to generate a 
>>> loop.
>>
>> Jesse, to clarify, are when you say "Other than that it continues to
>> act on it" are you saying that Alex's statement that RT will use the
>> X-RT-Loop-Prevention header is incorrect? Or are you saying that it
>> doesn't respond to the messages but it still puts them in the queue?
>
> RT should use the X-RT-Loop-Prevention header to stop RT from talking 
> to
> itself. But ezmlm and your customer's MTA are broken in such a way that
> by catering to them, RT could get itself stuck in a loop with another
> poorly behaved MTA.
>