I sent an email to a new person, someone who was not on my
whitelist, and I sadly forgot to set my X-TMDA to bare=append.

They kindly replied to my email address, and of course got a
confirmation request as an answer.

Now, instead of replying to this message and making everything
better, the guy said:

> 
> Sorry, but it was you who wrote me first. And I had the
> courtesy to reply.
> 

Since he replied to my "regular" address, he got another
confirmation request.

Now here's where the fun starts...  He apparently marked me as
"spam" which caused my confirmation request to be bounced (not to
my envelope sender, which would have been dealt with properly),
but to my regular email address.

>From then on about 300 emails, I think, were sent back and forth
between my TMDA and his spam blocker -x application... I have no
details at all about what was used at his end, the headers in the
message I finally released seem to be devoid of anything that may
clue me in to what he's using.

My TMDA was always replying to his envelope sender, which was
just his regular email address, but his bouncer was replying to
my "From" address.

Eventually I noticed this and whitelisted him, so there should be
no more loop.

My questions:

1) Is there any thing I can do to prevent this from happening in
the future, besides the obvious - remembering to use bare=append?

2) Should I try to contact this person and let them know that
their email autoresponder is in violation of some standard for
replying to the From address instead of the envelope-sender?
What standard is it that they would be in violation of?

-- 
Jim Ramsay
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