Logcheck devel - Jul 2008 - Bug#489172: logcheck: please add Auto-Submitted header field to mailouts

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.54
Severity: wishlist

Please add the header "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" to mails
generated by logcheck.  This header should be supported by many email
autoresponders and should prevent the need to set up logcheck specific
rules for "vacation"-type autoresponders.

Headers can be added in mail using the -a switch, e.g.
   mail -a Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" -s "$subject"
"$SENDMAILTO"

For details regarding the Auto-Submitted header field, see RFC 3834 sec 5
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834#section-5

Your message dated Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:32:06 +0000
with message-id <E1KZsec-00064f-G9 at ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#489172: fixed in logcheck 1.3.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #489172,
regarding logcheck: please add Auto-Submitted header field to mailouts
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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* Lee Maguire <lee-debian at hexkey.co.uk> [2008-07-03 19:49:58
CEST]:
> Please add the header "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" to mails
> generated by logcheck.  This header should be supported by many email
> autoresponders and should prevent the need to set up logcheck specific
> rules for "vacation"-type autoresponders.
 "should be supported" - how many do so already? It's a proposed
standard, i.e. it's not one yet. Actually I'm not really aware of that
header being out in the wild? What happened to the good old Precedence
header?

 I'm not really convinced about what the gain of adding that header
will be. What tools have support for it already? What's the benefit of
adding it (besides that it looks fishy as actual proper header without
the X- prefix to me)?

 Thanks for any further informations you can offer.
Rhonda