How do I shut off reply when sending an email to a large group?

Question

When sending an email to a large group, how do I shut off the automatic reply messages. I don't want to receive a reply.

Tammy

Answer 1

This can not be done.

Automatic replies are being sent by the recipient of your original email. Your email client can not differentiate between a user sent email or a computer generated one.

Answer 2

Emails can have a reply-to setting, which is where well-behaved email systems will direct replies, including automatic ones. How and whether you can access this setting in your email program is a different question, but if you can figure that part out, then you can simply set that to a bogus address such as "noreply@yourdomain.com". In general, this is more reliable than spoofing the from address itself, since some mail servers will detect a mismatch between where an email came from and where it says it came from, and will mark such emails as spam/refuse to deliver them.

If you want to still receive individual replies, just not the auto-responder ones, you can tell your recipients to use the "From" address. (This is another aspect where spoofing the "From" address fails: if you set that to a bogus mailbox, then your recipients will not know where to direct replies without drilling into the email headers or something.)

Answer 3

You cannot prevent replies, but you can misdirect them. Depending on the mail client and first uplink mail server you are using, you can generate a bogus "do not reply" From: address for your email. Most bulk email programs offer this option. Whether your ISP will accept such a message is another question.