Precedence: field

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From: Michael DeCorte
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1989 23:05

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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:'?
--

Michael DeCorte // H215-546-0497 W386-8164 Fax386-8252 // mrd@clutx.bitnet
2300 Naudain St. "H", Phil, PA 19146 // mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
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