add "Auto-Submitted: auto-generated" to generated EMails?

[Russ Allbery]

Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> writes:
> On 3/11/23 6:06 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Relaying messages to moderators in a way that doesn't get them filtered
>> out as spam is probably the most severe issue, and I'm dubious
>> encapsulation would help much.

> Would you please elaborate on your concerns about encapsulation?

> I'd think that message/rfc822 attachments would suffice for most things.
> Though that is predicated on an MUA that knows how to deal with them.

It's not that it's not technically fine -- it certainly is -- but the main
problem with moderation right now is that the email sent to the moderator
gets rejected or discarded along the way by spam filters.  If we used
encapsulation, this would have the advantage of no longer sending email
apparently from an address that has no relation to the transmission path
(probably good for not triggering spam filters) but the disadvantage of
looking very weird and having nested encapsulation structure (very bad for
spam filtering because spam filters usually treat all unusual messages as
a sign of phishing).

And if I were to pick one thing that threatens the moderation system the
most, it would be messages going silently missing because the email server
of the moderator decides that a lot of the moderation messages are spam
and therefore all of them are spam and starts silently throwing them all
away.

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