Stefan Palme wrote:
Hi all,
I've reconfigured our website email system, so auto-generated emails
now have a valid From: and Reply-To: header ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and use
an alternate envelope-FROM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Now I have seen a lot of auto-reply mails (aka "I am on holidays and
back in september"). These mails are being sent to the info-bounces
address, i.e. the original envelope FROM.
Is this the expected behaviour for this kind of auto replies?
yes. This way, you can setup a program to handle mail sent to
info-bounces and have it parse the message and ignore it if it's a
vacation message.... etc.
More general: is there a written rule, when to send emails to the
Return-Path, when to "Reply-To:" and when to "Errors-To" ?
There is some level of disagreement, but it is a good practice to send
auto-replies to the envelope sender.
Reply-To is for "people" (not for robots). if user replies to a message,
then reply-To is preferred, and if not, From header.
Errors-To has never been standardized and is "discouraged".
