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What technology can deal with spam, where the originator is actively and maliciously trying to break your filtering algorithm, but is helpless when dealing with bounce-backs, where there is no such intent?



It's possible, sure. But I'm not aware of any off-the-shelf options (as with spam filtering) and it's certainly much easier to just say do-not-reply


But I'm not aware of any off-the-shelf options

Then you haven't looked very hard. Every CRM system worth its salt (including the free OTRS) supports this. Either by inserting a cookie into the initial mail ("please leave this line intact when you reply") or, smarter, by assigning a dedicated reply-to address to each recipient.

It's not rocket science and adding a "do not reply to this mail" speaks volumes about how little you care about customer service.


Right, obviously there are plenty of systems that will tag all incoming mail and create a ticket for it, etc.

But I don't want 12,000 tickets for Out of Office messages in my CRM system, thanks.




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