Re: [Exim] Newbie: Return-Path

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ian Southam
CC: Tyrone Watt, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Newbie: Return-Path
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ian Southam wrote:

> It doesn't seem to matter. For mailing lists and scripts we set the
> return-path and the errors-to manually. Exim does not seem to mess with them
> it is just that some systems do not seem to honour them - AOL in particular.
> Despite my best attempts to date, any AOL address that bounces back to any of
> the lists we host, will get returned not to <list>-owner but to the user that
> the list manager runs under.


AOL is probably following the rules in the RFCs, and returning to the
message's envelope-sender. This is *not* the contents of any return-path
header that may be in the message. It is the address sent by the MAIL
FROM command in the SMTP protocol.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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