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In article <MRD.89Oct29180553@image.clarkson.edu> mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:
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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:'?

Well, it's not vacation's fault.  Sendmail uses the precedence field.  As I
recall, there are a few "default" values that can be used.  For example, if I
say "Precidence: bulk" in my message, and it's sent to a site that can not deal
with it, (unknown/no such user) it should silently trashcan the message, and
not bounce it back to me.

I've been running with this on the rc-cars mailing list for some time now, with
NO bounced messages that I know of.  (Unless the site trashcans it, then that's
ok :-)

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles	Utek Engineering, Tektronix Inc.	jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM
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