Agent WranglersInbound mail and replies
Read the mail that comes back. Accept postmaster and abuse reports, check who sent each reply before you act on it, and never answer an automatic reply.
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Accept mail at postmaster and abuse
EML-36Accept mail for
postmaster@andabuse@on every domain you send from, and route it to a person who reads it.Act on a reply only when its address token and authentication match
EML-78Give each thread a reply address with a signed token. Act on a reply only when the token is valid and your own server's
Authentication-Resultsshow DMARC pass for the expected sender.Send automatic replies only to mail from people
EML-79Send no automatic reply to a message that carries
Auto-Submittedother thanno, aList-Idor aPrecedenceofbulk,listorjunk. Mark every automatic replyAuto-Submitted: auto-replied, and send at most one to a sender in 7 days.
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