It's not quite that easy. If you start auto replying, you can easily get into a mail loop. For instance, you get a message to an invalid user. The system sends off a bounced reply. The message then hits a vacation program which sends a reply back from the user, and you have a loop.
People could be sneaky and set up a script that handles all replies. As soon as Gossamer Mail sends it's bounce message, the script fires two messages back at Gossamer Mail with headers crafted in such a way to be difficult to detect. This will quickly shut down your server. The reason places like Yahoo can do it is they do it on the mail server level and have access to more information then Gossamer Mail does from just the mail headers.
There are a lot of issues to take into account to do it properly. This isn't to say we aren't going to try to do it though, as if done right it can add a lot of features (email forwarding, etc). Just takes a lot of thought and reasearch.
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
People could be sneaky and set up a script that handles all replies. As soon as Gossamer Mail sends it's bounce message, the script fires two messages back at Gossamer Mail with headers crafted in such a way to be difficult to detect. This will quickly shut down your server. The reason places like Yahoo can do it is they do it on the mail server level and have access to more information then Gossamer Mail does from just the mail headers.
There are a lot of issues to take into account to do it properly. This isn't to say we aren't going to try to do it though, as if done right it can add a lot of features (email forwarding, etc). Just takes a lot of thought and reasearch.
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
