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

[Julien ÉLIE]

In addition to my previous message:

>>> This "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" header field could then be used in:
>>> - Daily Usenet reports (news.daily);

Correctly received one this night with that header field :-)


> I agree that these two processes (gatewaying and moderation) fall in the 
> auto-replied category.
> My worry is that we'll end up injecting articles with an Auto-Submitted 
> header field into Netnews.
> The moderation software will receive an article encapsulated into a 
> mail, with an Auto-Submitted header field.  I guess it does not know 
> that header field, and keep it when posting the approved article.  And 
> we'll have Auto-Submitted header fields in most of the articles posted 
> to moderated newsgroups...
> Same thing for the resulting mail or article when gatewaying.

On second thoughts, gatewaying and moderation should already be robust 
to any kind of additional header fields added during the mail 
transmission (SMTP relays, scoring, etc.) so it shouldn't normally do 
any harm to add Auto-Submitted.

(When using INN's mailpost, this header field will be converted to 
X-Auto-Submitted.)

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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