On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:30 -0700, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> > Hello Experts,
> >
> > The autoreply driver, by default, sends <> for the envelope sender. Is
> > there any way to get it to put in an address? I'd like to know if the
> > autoreply bounces.
>
> I sincerely hope not. To send an autoreply with a non-empty reverse-path
> of its own would be extremely dangerous. If I ever detect such a thing I
Hi David,
Thank you for your reply.
Auto-replies with Return-paths happen all the time if the auto-reply
is generated outside exim.
For example, I just sent a 'help' to exim-users-request@???.
The reply starts:
>From exim-users-request@??? Wed Jun 16 08:22:51 2004
Return-path: <exim-users-admin@???>
Envelope-to: marilyn@???
Delivery-date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:22:05 -0700
Received: from [195.92.249.251] (helo=exim-colo-01.whoc.theplanet.co.uk)
by deliberate.com with smtp (Exim 4.22)
If I push all mail that comes to the generated Return-path into a pipe
that deals with it, there ought not be a problem?
Or, long as the Return-path is different from the original recipient,
and it makes sense, we should be ok?
Thank you for thinking about this.
Marilyn
> report it to the network provider's abuse contact as an attempted denial
> of service attack -- it's a mail loop waiting to happen.
>
> Don't do this.
>
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