Two immediate reasons come to mind as to why I wouldn't use a null sender-- 1. The common expectation is that null sender = NDR. 2. It would also prevent you from tracking some bounces -- i.e., it's incompatible with VERP.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 12:44 PM Patrick Ben Koetter via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Greetings, > > why is it that everyone is still using noreply addresses to send notifications > and other one-way messages? > > It seems to be common understanding to use e.g. nore...@example.com to keep > people from replying to mail from example.com. The typical policy is to reject > or discard any mail that goes to any noreply-address. > > To me this always creates confusion because technically I *can* create and > send a reply to this address - only to find out a second later it was rejected > or dropped. > > On a sidenote: The "right thing to do" [tm] to me seems to use the empty > envelope sender '<>' because I can't send a message to that sender in a > reply. > > So why is it that everyone is still using these noreply addresses? Is there > something I'm missing out? Things that come to mind are: > > - A sender is required, because too many platforms reject mail from the empty > envelope sender > - It has become a habit. People have been trained over years to understand > that noreply is an address you *shouldn't* send mail to. > - It allows to apply a DKIM signature thus allowing to align with DMARC > policy. > > Anything else? Any explanations? Why is it your company is using them? > > p@rick > > P.S. > EMM seem to strongly discourage usage of noreply addresses, because they say > it indicates the sender is not interested in communication. So it can't be > "them" upholding noreply address usage. > > > -- > [*] sys4 AG > > https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 > Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 > Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer, Wolfgang Stief > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- al iverson // wombatmail // chicago http://www.aliverson.com http://www.spamresource.com _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
