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E-mail notification reply address 13/03/2010 at 17:10 #850
Sacro
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Just noticed that when you get a notification the reply-to address is do_not_reply@notreply.com, this means that if anyone does reply to the e-mail then it'll get sent to an unknown person on that domain, this could have unwanted consequences! It'd be a lot better to use donotreply@SimSig.co.uk and set all e-mails that go to that address to be deleted.
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E-mail notification reply address 13/03/2010 at 17:10 #7268
Sacro
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Just noticed that when you get a notification the reply-to address is do_not_reply@notreply.com, this means that if anyone does reply to the e-mail then it'll get sent to an unknown person on that domain, this could have unwanted consequences! It'd be a lot better to use donotreply@SimSig.co.uk and set all e-mails that go to that address to be deleted.
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E-mail notification reply address 15/03/2010 at 09:33 #7299
UKTrainMan
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Sacro, you may a very good point here, however;

1: The domain name "notreply.com" does not appear to exist, as in trying to access it brings up a DNS Error and also looking at the records for the domain name show it is not registered.

2: If anyone replied to that address anyway then I would expect the eMail to be lost in the abyss or they would get an automated reply saying the eMail could not be delivered.

But yes, changing it to donotreply@SimSig.co.uk or do_not_reply@SimSig.co.uk or noreply@SimSig.co.uk or no_reply@SimSig.co.uk (even if the eMail address isn't valid) wouldn't be a bad idea.

Any views and / or opinions expressed by myself are from me personally and do not represent those of any company I either work for or am a consultant for.
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E-mail notification reply address 17/03/2010 at 23:27 #7339
DazrahT
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I have noticed a grammatical error in the emails received from SimSig

"replied to to your post on SimSig to"

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E-mail notification reply address 18/03/2010 at 02:10 #7344
meeko
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Speaking as an Systems Administrator for a major Canadian ISP, please don't use a non-existent address as the reply to. All that does is generate useless additional traffic from non-delivery reports, and can lead to backscatter (http://www.backscatterer.org/?target=backscatter).

The correct way to do it is a valid email address that just discards anything sent to it.

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