Should I use the cPanel autoresponder or Gmail autoresponder?

[philraymond]

I get many emails that score a 2 on the cPanel spam filter but are indeed spam. Not the end of the world but I wonder:

1. Is it a problem that my cPanel autoresponder email goes out to them? I wonder if I'm hurting my sender reputation by sending autoresponder emails to all of these spam email addresses?

2. If it is an issue, I wonder if I should instead use Gmail's autoresponder functionality? I pull all of my email down to Gmail, and they do a great job of filtering out the spam, so I wonder if setting up an autoresponder within Gmail would be better.

Any thoughts? Thank you!

 

[cPanelLauren]

You are probably not causing any issues if your autoresponder just responds once. Ultimately I'd say this is a preference issue.