add "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" to generated EMails?

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Harald,

> do you think it would be possible to add a header field
> 
>      Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
> 
> to the generated EMails like the daily usenet report, following
> the recommendation in RFC 3834?

I did not know that header field; thanks for the reference!
I think it is indeed possible to add it in some mails generated by INN. 
According to RFC 3834, the auto-generated keyword is intended to be used 
on messages generated by automatic processes such as cron jobs, and that 
are not direct responses to other messages or manually generated messages.

This "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" header field could then be used in:
- Daily Usenet reports (news.daily);
- newgroup/rmgroup/checkgroups reports (controlchan);
- top1000 reports (sendinpaths);
- failure or warning reports from various programs (mailpost, expirerm, 
rc.news, innwatch, writelog);
- our internal wrapper to sendmail or like (innmail, with a new option 
that will add it, as some use cases may include manually generated mails 
-- most of the above programs use it).


> This could help to avoid unnecessary vacation replies and support
> automatic EMail filtering.

At least it does not do any harm to add that header field, either the 
mail client knows that header field or does not.


Are we OK that the following 2 use cases should *not* have that header 
field?
- mails generated for the news -> mail gatewaying process;
- mails generated for the moderating process (posts to a moderated 
newsgroup without an Approved header field).

I think these mails fall in the "manually generated" category (they are 
just somehow "forwarded" elsewhere), but the definition is not very clear.


And my best wishes for this new Year to all of the inn-workers readers!

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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