Are "auto reply" emails treated as bounces?

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Quick question:

If users on our mailing list have an "auto reply" email that is returned automatically when someone emails them, will these auto reply emails be seen by LMP as a bounce?

Or is there some other factor in the mail headers that LMP uses to determine emails have actually bounced?

Thanks!

[DW]

Greetings,

The "Bounce to Email" on the ListMail Configuration page turns into a hidden "Return-path" header in the received email.  The "Send From Email" for each list is set as the "From" header and is used for display and replies.

Some auto-reply systems correctly send messages to the "From" address.  Others send to the "Return-path", which would be processed as a bounce.  This unfortunately cannot be avoided as the most popular methods of bounce handling entail using the "Return-path".  There are ways to ignore bounces containing certain strings.

In bounce.cgi, after this line:

Code: [Select]

if($email){
Add this, for example:

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# skip if an auto-reply
if(index(lc $email,'autoreply')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'auto-reply')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'out of office')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'will be away')>-1){ exit; }
I plan on providing an interface for setting such strings in LMP soon.

Regards