# Best approach to "whitelist" Precedence: bulk mails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 19, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804 "2016-04-19T07:54:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@carlokok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carlokok)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/1 "2016-04-19T07:54:43Z")
Normally I’m fine with the filters discourse has setup to avoid posting data for maillings, however how would I best approach allow discourse to create a post anyway with a “Precedence: bulk” header set for a specific domain?
The reason I’m asking, one of our resellers is sending all mails with mandril and has a Precedence: bulk header set which doesn’t get posted as a discourse app. We obviously do want to deal with these mails, anyone have an idea on what best to do here?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/2 "2016-04-19T08:29:28Z")
I will be adding a new setting today to deal with that specific issue. Instead of rejecting “auto generated” emails, they will be marked as such but will be processed like any other emails.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/3 "2016-04-19T12:10:30Z")
Cool! But hopefully this doesn’t mean the return of “out of office” replies. 😉
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/4 "2016-04-19T12:58:45Z")
It’ll be a site setting. But we’re experiencing about 50% false positives and want to feel the pain in order to understand it more.
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### Author:  [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/5 "2016-04-19T14:19:19Z")
So to confirm this is related to Google Apps as well,
User sends an email to an email address and the mail gets flagged as “Email::Receiver::AutoGeneratedEmailError”
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### Author:  [@Jared\_Needell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jared_Needell)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/6 "2016-04-19T14:25:42Z")
Also is there a feature not send reject emails for the auto-generated stuff? I think it causes confusion when an out of office email gets caught.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/7 "2016-04-20T00:29:06Z")
You should configure bounce email, cause that should eliminate the majority
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/8 "2016-04-20T02:13:04Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> You should configure bounce email, cause that should eliminate the majority
Not entirely sure I follow what you’re suggesting…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/9 "2016-04-20T03:44:12Z")
See
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-discourse-manages-bounces-and-unsubscribe-while-sending-email-notifications/22039/8?u=sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-discourse-manages-bounces-and-unsubscribe-while-sending-email-notifications/22039/8)
Most software sends out of office replies to the return path, some does not
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/10 "2016-04-20T19:33:58Z")
Here’s the new `block_auto_generated_emails` site setting (defaults to `true`) 📧
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/4960b621101845017f7bd4146f7f8d155a8b41e4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/4960b621101845017f7bd4146f7f8d155a8b41e4)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/11 "2019-01-09T10:52:38Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-approach-to-whitelist-precedence-bulk-mails/42804/12 "2019-01-09T11:52:36Z")