On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:13:50PM -0700, uninvited(a)nerstrand.net wrote:
Now that email confirmations have been enabled, there
has been a fair
amount of traffic to the OTRS resulting from people replying to the
confirmation email they receive instead of clicking on the link in it.
The From: address of the confirmations is wiki(a)wikimedia.org, an address
which is being redirected to the info-en OTRS queue.
It's not send to info-en directly. It goes into another queue first and
only those that are not just 'thank you', 'I like wikipedia', 'where
can
I buy plane tickets' etc pp go to info-en.
There is nothing we at OTRS can do to help these
people.
The ones going to info-en should contain real questions. Like 'how do I
edit?', 'what is this?', 'I used our university computer to sign up, is
this bad?', 'This is all to complicated, can you please delete my
account?'. Those should be answered by info-en people.
I would like to suggest that perhaps another From:
address be used,
ideally one that produces an automatic bounce.
We'd need one per language, and a language specific bounce message. Or
we should add a 'DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE!' to the email
confirmation mails.
And proper loop detection - we receive dozens of 'please click this link to
release your mail from the spam jail'.
Regards,
jens