On 10/20/2017 09:57 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > Depending on the use case, discarding email can be as valid a method as > rejecting email. Messages sent by automation- or monitoring-services > (Jenkins, Icinga) come to mind. If somebody chooses to reply to these > machine-generated notifications, I expect him to manually select a human > recipient, or the reply will be silently ignored. >
You don't want to send Nagios alerts to someone who keeps replying "YOU HAVE THE WRONG PHONE NUMBER." You don't want to send Jenkins reports to an email address that has been dead since Dave quit five years ago. If one of your coworkers who apparently has something important to communicate hits "reply" on a build failure, I'm not sure how silently ignoring him is better than responding with "I think you meant to send this to the Jenkins admin." tl;dr use a real address
