How we can avoid this?
https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/vacation-reply/1494
Do mailing lists manage to avoid this? I am pretty sure they also get hit with these. On the web end of things we can certainly just take them down.
I think we might be able to avoid this by changing the ‘return-path’ header (and possibly the ‘from’ header) on outgoing emails.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Header_fields, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/154718/precedence-header-in-email, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1235534/what-is-the-behavior-difference-between-return-path-reply-to-and-from
I think on mailing lists the “To:” header is the mailing list email so the client just send out of office replies if an email has the person email in “To:” field, not a mailing list one.
This is what I found:
Detecting auto-responders is not necessarily the easiest thing if you believe https://github.com/jpmckinney/multi_mail/wiki/Detecting-autoresponders …