As an example:
If the mail comes from an address noreply@xyz.com, then the systems responds with "why would we want to read your mail if you don't let us reply".
Is this accepted behavior in the net community or can we get in trouble for it?
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Sign up to join this communityAs an example:
If the mail comes from an address noreply@xyz.com, then the systems responds with "why would we want to read your mail if you don't let us reply".
Is this accepted behavior in the net community or can we get in trouble for it?
Don't do that. At best, it is a waste of bandwidth. At worst, it's spam. It will do nothing but annoy people and could damage your mailserver's reputation.
Don't do this for yet another reason.
The noreply address (which bounces) is meant to prevent anyone from receiving a reply to automatically generated emails.
By coincidence, just last night I received such an email from a user of a website I admin, because the autogenerated mail had the return address of hostmaster@example.com, instead of a noreply address. I received several of them, in fact, profanity laced all-caps screaming with dozens of exclamation points, all intended for someone else.
Naturally, I firewalled his IP address and reconfigured the app to use a more appropriate noreply address.
I'd avoid doing that.
You'll run into a noreply address eventually which auto-replies with "no, really, no replies to this address" and an infinite loop of email will be born.
You are also telling the sender that your email address is a valid one. Be prepared to potentially receive a lot more unsolicited email when you do this.
trouble
do you imagine? That the email etiquette police will ticket you? Your email doesn't get blocked based on the disposition of your reply. Spam filters don't scan your email for sarcasm. If there is such a spam filter I'd like someone to point it out to me. This site is for questions about problems related toprofessional systems administration
. This question doesn't fit because any professional with an ounce of respect for their profession and the IT field wouldn't ask this question. – joeqwerty Jun 13 '14 at 22:56DATA
, you can still store the incoming msg. – kasperd Jun 14 '14 at 8:59