On 28-Oct-99 at 16:54:37 Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth John Horne on Thu, Oct 28, 1999:
>> The central mailhub here mainly acts as a gateway (mail server?) in that
>> it receives mail for the University's users but sends most of it onto
>> other file servers.
> [snip]
>> I assume then that it is exim which is setting the SMTP MAIL
>> FROM address of 'postmaster@???', and the exchange server sees
>> this and uses it to write in a Return-path: header.
>
> Yes, it seems likely. How did you configure the incoming mail
> processing? Did you set errors_to or something similar?
>
Exactly! Apologies to the list about this. I mis-read the 'errors_to' as
being similar to 'syntax_errors_to' - i.e. any local sort of error will
cause a mail message to be sent to the postmaster. The 'errors_to', however,
sets the envelope FROM address and hence all the return-path/delivery
notification 'problem' we saw. I checked through the manual and the director
we used last night and spotted the mistake.
Having said that though I still think the documentation around - RFC's,
drums - about the Return-path can be mis-leading. It may (or may not) become
clearer when the new SMTP update becomes an RFC.
Many thanks,
John.
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