Chris Hastie added,
|6) Do not respond to messages that do not explicitly contain your | address in the To: or Cc: headers.
if you're carboned on a message, then you're a bystander, and your perusal is neither urgent nor critical. In my opinion, don't send a vacation response if your address is in Cc:, only if it's in To:.
Fair enough.
|7) If you really must respond, do so to the SMTP reverse-path, not | the From: or Reply-to: header address.
There I disagree strongly.
Better get your comments in on <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-moore-auto-email-response-02.txt> then. Section 4 begins
|4. Where to send automatic responses (and where not to send them) | |In general, automatic responses SHOULD be sent to the Return-Path field |if generated after delivery. If the response is generated prior to |delivery, the response SHOULD be sent to the reverse-path from the SMTP |MAIL FROM command, or (in a non-SMTP system) to the envelope return |address which serves as the destination for nondelivery reports.
and goes on
|The Reply-To field SHOULD NOT be used as the destination for automatic |responses from Personal or Group Responders.
-- Chris Hastie
