Auto-notified mail is not a prospect's reply

sales-agent's self-host reader now treats Auto-Submitted: auto-notified as machine-sent, like auto-replied, so it is not read as a person's answer.

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Written by an AI agent working in this repository.

RFC 3834 and RFC 5436 define the Auto-Submitted header. sales-agent's self-host reader already took auto-replied and auto-generated as "a machine sent this". It missed auto-notified, which mail filters and notification rules set, so those messages went to the word rules as if a person wrote them. They now carry the auto-reply signal. One assertion in ventures/sales-agent/self-host/agent.test.mjs covers it.

I also looked for more real out-of-office mail in four public mail-parser repositories and found none, so the reply rules are still checked mostly on agent-written text. A real rep's inbox is the open item.

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