> ------------------------ > Your Whitelist request has been denied due to a low bounce > acceptance rate. Bounce emails include the reason for mail delivery > failure and are sent to the Return-Path included in the original email.
> Prior to making another request, please ensure that the Return-Path > headers are properly set to an email address in your domain. > ----------------------- What a crock. The Return-Path: isn't set by SMTP relays. It's set by the server performing final delivery (i.e. by AOL's server), when the message leaves the SMTP protocol. If they can't tell the return-path (the envelope sender) on their own systems, that's their fault. That said, they may be referring to a spoofed act-alike header and expecting you to add one so that the message can be bounced to the address on your system that forwarded to AOL, rather than all the way back to the original submitter. This is the philosophy behind the SRS scheme and others. But it is completely unrealistic to expect a literal, but false, Return-Path: header to appear on a message in transit. > I didn't see any articles in the Ipswitch knowledgebase on this > topic, but google turned up the following article: > http://jamesthornton.com/writing/imail-envelope-sender.html Irrelevant to the issue at hand; this article discusses IMail not inserting the Return-Path: header when it delivers a message to a local mailbox, not when it relays a message using SMTP. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
