I've just had a call from a rather cocky person at the company. They claim it is allright and common. I disagree, with the exception that it is common among spammers*. Hence why I'm asking other NZNOG members. Reply emails go to an auto responder which the company person says is unmonitored. This issue was bought to my attention when I wrote an email to this company, though as we handle (I estimate) several thousand emails per day from this company, I ahve decided to investigate the matter further. *I am in no way suggesting said company is a spammer, but we're under constant pressure from customers to increase the level of 'protection' and looking at their emails, they could quite possibly score a few bayes points.
In investigating an issue involving a large online NZ company's outbound email - I read RFC822 which I have quoted below.
I note that this company is currently making use of apparently unmonitored return addresses which generate an auto reply.
Are you saying they are sending (MFROM) Addresses which don't exist (ie cannot be bounced back to etc). Or MFROM a valid email address which no one reads (ie noreply(a)XXXXX)
Thanks Craig