On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Andrey Novikov wrote:
> > Ah, but what is the correct "From" addres when a web server sends
> > email? Some cg scripts will set it to whatever the person in the
> > browser types in the "email address" field - a very bad practice,
> > IMNSHO.
> Why do you think I'm doing that. The task is not to send
> email to me. I do know that there is no reason to reply to
> pseudo-user. But the task is to send email to that
> person(s), for him to be able to reply me and to get error
> replyes on my address but not on pseudo-users. Is it making
> any sence?
What I do is the following: My CGI (it's not actually a CGI, but lets
call it that anyway) allows for the mail header Reply-To: to contain an
email address specified by the submitter of the form. So when I reply to
one of those the reply goes to the Reply-To address. I still have the
mail message be From (both the header from and the envelope from) the
webserver daemon.
In the email generated by the CGI, it is a good idea to add explicit text
in the body saying.
The person who submitted the form supplied the email address
$replyto
There is no guarentee that that address is correct or belongs to the
person who submitted the form, but a normal Reply to this message will
be sent to that address.
Also it is useful to add things to the message headers like
X-Note: This message was generated by the XXX program on SERVER when
called by the web form at HTTP_REFERER. If this causes problems or
is being abused in any way, please notify ...
-j
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