>- The final SMTP server will PRESERVE the ENVELOPE FROM to the
>- RETURN PATH header, so that any bounces AFTER completion of
>- the SMTP process still know where to send bounces to.
>
>As I read RFC2821 7.2, second paragraph, a mail system should NOT do
>exactly this.
RFC2821 7.2 second paragr
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- >> Im curious how this would be achieved w
>> Im curious how this would be achieved without setting the return-path:
header previously:
"It is possible for the mailbox in the return path to be different
from the actual sender's mailbox, for example, if error responses are
to be delivered to a special error handling mailbox rather than to
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1123.html
>> If there is a delivery failure after acceptance of a message, the
receiver-SMTP MUST formulate and mail a notification message. This
notification MUST be sent using a null ("<>") reverse path in the envelope;
see Section 3.6 of RFC-821.
> >> Allthough I don't see how the last server should acquire the address for
>the return-path: <<
>
>Well - it seems to me as if the last server has responsibility to report
>back to the relaying server that it was contacted from?
The Return-Path: header *must* take the address from the "MAIL
Terrence Koeman
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RFC 1123 (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1123.html)
"IMPLEMENTATION: The MAIL FROM: information may be passed as a parameter or
in a Return-Path: line inserted at the beginning of the message."
>> Allthough I don't see how the last server should acquire the address for
the return-p
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ence.
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- Well, most servers do not handle Return-Path: correctly,
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>> afaik is the Return-Path: header used to determine where to return the
mail in case it bounces and other postmaster messages. It can very well be
some other address than the address where it was
sent from. Like the reply-to: header. <<
Uhhh - so this header should (and possibly could) have be
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