[rt-users] Yahoo tagging RT mail as "bulk"

[Jesse Vincent]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:08:07PM -0500, Erek Dyskant wrote:
> Howdy All,
>    I'm having a somewhat bizarre problem.  Any mail that gets generated 
> by RT and sent to a yahoo email address gets placed in Yahoo's bulk bin, 
> however user-generated emails relayed by the same server do not get 
> tagged as bulk.  RT emails pass normal sender verification done by other 
> servers.
>    Has anyone else run into this problem, and if so, what was your 
> solution?

RT explicitly sets outgoing mail to Precedence: bulk, as it's
machine-generated email.  Doing so is one of the standard signals to an
auto-reply bot to not reply.   Filtering such mail out of an inbox for
that reason alone is kind of....inept.