[Tickets #7082] Re: Bulk header

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7082
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  Ticket             | 7082
  Updated By         | armijn at uulug.nl
  Summary            | Bulk header
  Queue              | Whups
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Assigned
  Priority           | 2. Medium
  Milestone          | 1.0
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Jan Schneider
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armijn at uulug.nl (2008-08-25 09:41) wrote:

>> What about RFC 3834? http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834
>>
>> Section 5 of that RFC talks about the Auto-Submitted header, which is
>> what you actually would like to add to every mail that Horde sends
>> automatically. Please add it to Horde, it would make a lot of mail
>> admins a lot happier :-)
>
> Is anybody actually using this header? I have never heard of it or
> seen it in the wild before.

I have. Newer versions of the vacation program definitely do use it.  
An increasing number of applications are filtering on these headers,  
for example Exim:

http://wiki.exim.org/EximAutoReply