Re: Priority of resent- fields

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Author: Chris Thompson
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To: David.Osborne
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Priority of resent- fields
David Osborne writes:

> What should exim's behaviour be regarding delivery reports for re-sent
> messages? When my users get a local address wrong, they usually have another
> attempt and re-send the delivery report sent to them by exim.
>
> However, if this Resent-to address is also incorrect, exim sends the resulting
> delivery report not to the Resent-from address but to the From address in the
> re-sent message (i.e., mailer-daemon@???), which comes to me. Is
> there any configuration I can do to correct this, or is exim not doing the
> right thing? I'm running 1.58.


What sort of "delivery reports" are we talking about here? If they are the
ones generated by Exim after failure of a director (or falling off the end
of the list), they surely ought to be to the envelope sender (SMTP "MAIL FROM"),
not to any of the header fields? A report generated by an explicit "autoreply"
transport might do something else, of course.

Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
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