Re: I-D Action:draft-klensin-rfc2821bis-10.txt

On 2008-04-24 15:36:59 +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Robert A. Rosenberg writes:
> > At 03:19 -0400 on 04/19/2008, Hector Santos wrote about Re: I-D 
> > Action:draft-klensin-rfc2821bis-10.txt:
> > > Just consider the many transactions with addresses such as:
> > >
> > >   no-reply @ validdomin.com
> > >
> > > that many feedbacks system use today, including bad guys and the 
> > > bad/good direct marketing people.
> > What is the envelope address for these messages?
> The ones that end mail to me (about fifty addresses in my personal mail 
> archive, mostly noreply@, some no-reply@, some others) generally use 
> the same address,and it's valid in the sense that the address is 
> syntactically valid and that mail to the address is accepted by the 
> best MX for the domain.
>
> I would not bet that mail to such an address is stored on disk, or 
> causes any reaction other than (at most) an autoresponse. But YMMV.
I wouldn't bet either, but I would consider it bad practice if the
envelope sender for any automated mail is a black hole. If no human is
reading it, then there should at least be some program which analyzes
bounces and marks bouncing addresses as probably invalid.

        hp

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