Messages in this thread | | | From | Steve VanDevender <> | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:51:52 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Now who does cause this ??? |
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Matthew Kirkwood writes: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Riley Williams wrote: > > > Somebody (likely in Sweden) is resending all their incoming > > > email to some gateway address, but the writers of that gateway > > > are truly morons, and they send the error reports to WRONG > > > address. > > > The problem is that the software doing the bouncing CORRECTLY replies > > to the FROM address on the email it's bouncing, as that's the only > > originating address it has available. > > Wrong. It is (AFAIK) never correct for an MTA to use a From: address > for any purpose. That's why majordomo inserts a "Return-path: > owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger" to every mail, and any MTA ignoring that > is broken.
To be pedantic, the Return-path: header contains the envelope sender address (the argument of the "MAIL FROM:" SMTP command) and is inserted by a receiving MTA for informational purposes on final delivery, not by an originating mailer. Bounces are supposed to go to the envelope sender -- but that doesn't mean an MTA is supposed to use the Return-path; header to get that address.
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