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watch email precedence header
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Author: jim

Description:
The email sent when a page on the watchlist is changed should have a:

Precedence: bulk

header to reduce the number of vacation autoresponders that reply to it.


Version: 1.15.x
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz24023

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:09 PM
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According to RFC 2076 section 3.9, the Precedence header should not be used:

Precedence: Non-standard, controversial, discouraged
Sometimes used as a priority value which can influence transmission speed and delivery.

Common values are "bulk" and "first-class". Other uses is to control automatic replies and to control return-of-content facilities, and to stop mailinglist loops.

mailman seems to add Precedence: list, so it is probably not that bad.