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| Vacation Responders | A "nice" but dangerous feature found in many email client programs. It may be refered to by various terms, such as Out of Office Notice, Vacation Message, etc. It will automatically send a prewritten reply to all messages received informing the "sender" that "you" have received the message but may be delayed in reading and or responding to the message. In todays internet enviroment this has become a bad thing for several reasons; unless its usage can be programmed to deal with the problem of forged "from" / "reply to" addresses used in most spam. By automatically responding to messages with forged addresses, you risk having your mail server added to various blocking lists. This may be the result of replying to a spamtrap or to a victim who has now been buried by thousands of automatic replys from the millions of messages sent by a spammer who used their address (without permission) as a reply to address. The problem for you is that many ISP's and users to which you need to send email may automatically reject, flag, or delete your mail and the mail of all other users who happen to be using the same mail server as you to send their mail. In some cases you may received a notice that the mail was rejected, while in other cases the mail is simply automatically deleted without being processed. The following definition hints at another reason to avoid the use of Vacation Responders: A vacation responder is a service that you can set on many mail servers to automatically let criminals know that they can steal your identify for a specific period of time with out fear of getting caught. It allows them to steal anything from your company that someone else thinks you are authorized to mail with out your signature. These criminals are also known to use voicemail vacation messages for this purpose. |
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