Often a recipient will have an "out of Office" autoreply set, perhaps I might do so. Or I send/receive to/from a user who has a different challenge-response system. What prevents a challenge being issued to such messages? How can a resultant back and forth "challenge of the response" storm be prevented?
This is partially answered in TMDA FAQ 4.12:
http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=show&file=faq04.012.htp
Which directs you to also see FAQ 5.4:
http://tmda.net/faq.cgi?req=show&file=faq05.004.htp
In short, if you follow instructions in FAQ 5.4 to use dated return addresses, and if any autoresponders you run into properly reply to your envelope (and not your reply-to address), you will have no problems whatsoever.
I think TMDA also deals with autogenerated emails in a different way, as long as it adds something into the header (I don't know what the 'something' is expected to be...) - and so TMDA will avoid mail-loops as often as it can detect these "something"s.
Worst case senario: You send an email to a broken autoresponder which (1) does not reply to your dated envelope, but to your bare address and (2) does not put anything in the headers to notify that the message was autogenerated. In this case a mailloop could occurr, but TMDA will throttle this off after sending 50 emails to the same address within 24 hours.
-- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
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