On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:34:22PM -0400,
mazieres(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com <mazieres(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 59 lines which said:
* I am on vacation, and receive mail which lists my own address in
the To: or CC: fields, and does not have any indications such as
"Precedence: list/bulk/junk" that it is from a mailing list. I wish
for my filter to notify the sender that I will not be responding for
a week. Should I send the notification to the MAIL-FROM address, as
I currently do, or to the PRA?
RFC 2822 and 3834 are quite clear, IMHO.
2822 :
Resent fields are
strictly informational. They MUST NOT be used in the normal
processing of replies or other such automatic actions on messages.
2822 :
When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it
indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests
that replies be sent. In the absence of the "Reply-To:" field,
replies SHOULD by default be sent to the mailbox(es) specified in the
"From:" field unless otherwise specified by the person composing the
reply.
3834 :
Similarly, the Sender field SHOULD NOT be used as the destination for
automatic responses. This field is intended only to identify the
person or entity that sent the message, and is not required to
contain an address that is valid for replies.
* I receive offensive and/or threatening mail from someone, and wish
to complain to their administrator. Should I complain to
postmaster/abuse at the domain name in the PRA, as opposed to the
domain in the From or envelope sender address?
I would say first to the postmaster/abuse at the domain name in the
From then, if there is no reply, to the one in the PRA (like people do
when they first mail the "offender" then his ISP).