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on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:25PM
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
Sure, you can set an out-of-office auto-reply to let others know they shouldn't email you, but that doesn't usually stop the messages; you may still have to handle those urgent-but-not-really requests while you're on vacation. That's not a problem if you work at Daimler, though. The German automaker recently installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it outright. If there's a meltdown at the workplace, you may not have to deal with it at all. The move affects about 100,000 employees, so it's clearly going to make an impact.
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Daimler's Solution for Annoying Out-of-Office Email: Delete it
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:41PM
A decent percentage of my email falls in 2 categories: stuff that keeps me up to date on things (like PDF user's guides for devices I'll be writing drivers for when I get back; and stuff I probably will never read but file away and search when I'm looking for something.
I'm perfectly capable of deciding which email needs to be deleted, in no case is it 100% of my email. Unless I'm dead (or fired (or both as I plan to be cremated)).
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cafebabe on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:57PM
Ignoring background notification messages which can be searched at leisure, it would be nice close a mailbox to new messages during absence. Unfortunately, this may not work in practice. If the sender is notified about a deleted message then this could escalate. For example, mail servers receiving a template response or an SMTP 5.5.x response could keep retrying. At best, messages would arrive in a flood when you return. However, with retry attempts becoming less frequent, it is more likely to tickle in after significant delay.
Overall, this interacts badly with the expectations of senders and receivers - and that assumes it doesn't create an arms race.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Monday August 18 2014, @01:56AM
There are special SMTP headers to deal with this. It's an very old issue already solved.