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Mail sent out by MediaWiki should have the Auto-Submitted header set to 'auto-generated' (RFC 3834)
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Author: mail

Description:
Please have a look at RFC 3834, section 5.
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3834.txt

This would be very helpful to prevent vacation messages being sent to the webserver's email address, etc.


Version: 1.24rc
Severity: enhancement

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bz16799

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:24 PM
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Hi Patrick! Sorry that nobody has taken a look at this report yet and given feedback.

This would be stuff to probably implement in /includes/UserMailer.php in Core.
If somebody wants to give this a try: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker

Not sure whether to set the "easy" keyword/tag as I don't know if this could have unwanted side effects worth to discuss first.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
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