The discussion revolves around filtering out delivery status failure emails in Discourse. carlokok shares an issue where 200 failure emails were posted after a mailing, and seeks suggestions to filter them out. codinghorror points out that such emails should be filtered due to the Auto-Submitted header, and shares a link to a GitHub wiki for detecting autoresponders.
However, carlokok finds that many systems do not follow these guidelines, and shares examples of different headers and content types used by various email systems. They also mention that setting up a sieve filter to block mailer-daemon and postmaster emails can reduce the issue.
zogstrip announces an improvement to Discourse’s auto-generated email detection, and DeanMarkTaylor suggests that this might complete a feature request to filter out out-of-office replies in the reply-by-mail feature.
Would it be possible for the email in code to filter out delivery status failure mails? We sent out a mailing last night and have 200 failures as posts in discourse now: