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I've personally setup noreply accounts for some selfhosted services. These emails are truly noreply, there is no inbox, any incoming mail is blackholed. There

by tscs37 9y ago

I've personally setup noreply accounts for some selfhosted services. These emails are truly noreply, there is no inbox, any incoming mail is blackholed. There is no sense in receiving it, it's automated and the software does not react to incoming mails. There is no reason to reply, there is no sense in replying, there is no way to reply, why demand the ability to reply? Why would I have me reading the garbage that piles up there? If you have a problem, contact postmaster/webmaster/root/etc. If I send you mail from a real human account, you can reply there. Simple as that. It seems a bit like someone demanding that the radio should respond to their choice of music. Sure, if you want that, get a music app (aka a meat-email) and stop listening to the radio (aka the machine-email)

sp332 9y ago
Why not send the email "From" postmaster/webmaster etc in the first place, or at least set the Reply-To header to that?
- tscs37 9y ago
  Because there is no reason for it. If you have a problem there is a contact email in every mail included. I do not feel like I should be sending mail from postmaster and the reply-to header does not feel any more appropriate. These emails are 100 percent automatic and do not require you to reply. Ever.
hinkley 9y ago
It would seem like over a long enough time horizon a significant fraction of the email you send is going to go to dead email addresses. Wouldn't it make sense once in a while to turn on receipt to see how bad your bounce rate is instead of ignoring it?
- tscs37 9y ago
  Not really. There is no reason for anyone to reply. As far as I'm aware from logs I only get about 10 Mails per month in these addresses. And I'm truly not interested in what someone has to say to an email that says "noreply"
neilalexander 9y ago
> If you have a problem, contact postmaster/webmaster/root/etc. This is a very outdated 1990s mentality. Most modern web users would have no idea that such a thing exists (or should exist), and they're probably the same users who also have no idea that WHOIS exists and know how to find contact details for a domain owner using it. It's also a little user-hostile to assume that nobody is ever going to question something they receive from an automated system. In that case, why make the user journey unnecessarily difficult by forcing them to find an alternative route to contact you?
- tscs37 9y ago
  There is no reason to reply. The emails state as such. A contact email is included. I literally do not care about anyone who thinks they can reply to these emails and I'm not concerned about user hostility. My users aren't the kind of users that will respond to such emails. Again, I don't see a reason to why I need to reply to emails which are explicitly only ever sent if the user chooses to at which point they have been warned about noreply and the emails themselves reinclude such warnings with the proper contact email, especially since this group of users are knowledgeable enough to not reply in the first place.

by tscs37 9y ago

sp332 9y ago

Why not send the email "From" postmaster/webmaster etc in the first place, or at least set the Reply-To header to that?

tscs37 9y ago
Because there is no reason for it. If you have a problem there is a contact email in every mail included. I do not feel like I should be sending mail from postmaster and the reply-to header does not feel any more appropriate. These emails are 100 percent automatic and do not require you to reply. Ever.

hinkley 9y ago

It would seem like over a long enough time horizon a significant fraction of the email you send is going to go to dead email addresses. Wouldn't it make sense once in a while to turn on receipt to see how bad your bounce rate is instead of ignoring it?

tscs37 9y ago
Not really. There is no reason for anyone to reply. As far as I'm aware from logs I only get about 10 Mails per month in these addresses. And I'm truly not interested in what someone has to say to an email that says "noreply"

neilalexander 9y ago

> If you have a problem, contact postmaster/webmaster/root/etc. This is a very outdated 1990s mentality. Most modern web users would have no idea that such a thing exists (or should exist), and they're probably the same users who also have no idea that WHOIS exists and know how to find contact details for a domain owner using it. It's also a little user-hostile to assume that nobody is ever going to question something they receive from an automated system. In that case, why make the user journey unnecessarily difficult by forcing them to find an alternative route to contact you?

tscs37 9y ago
There is no reason to reply. The emails state as such. A contact email is included. I literally do not care about anyone who thinks they can reply to these emails and I'm not concerned about user hostility. My users aren't the kind of users that will respond to such emails. Again, I don't see a reason to why I need to reply to emails which are explicitly only ever sent if the user chooses to at which point they have been warned about noreply and the emails themselves reinclude such warnings with the proper contact email, especially since this group of users are knowledgeable enough to not reply in the first place.