On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Grant Taylor wrote:
Are there any standards around no-reply type addresses?
The back story in this case involved two such systems that were naively replying to each others no-reply address.
Automation trying to be "helpful"? Damned if you do and damned if you don't, and in this case damned all around. It sounds like the messages were auto-generated and should have had headers indicating such, which still leaves whether there's enough clue in the receiver to check for them and if found avoid generating a response.
Another part of the question was if it's okay to omit such no-reply addresses when generating recipients for auto-replies or other programmatically generated emails.
Almost certainly. A related question is whether the presence of one should supress any kind of response especially from automation. The trick is that you can't be sure if <nore...@example.com> is from automation or merely someone at example.com being funny/peevish. When a message is received from a sender that doesn't want a reply (even if human) the mere presence of those headers begins to provide convincing, well not proof but at least an assertion that automation should not respond even "helpfully".
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