Re: [exim] exim 4.4 authentication

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim 4.4 authentication
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:30:09 +0000, Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, would you send the bounce to the envelope
>> sender of the message (which might be misconfigured on the client) or
>> to the e-mail address connected with the authenticated accoutn (which
>> might be an address that the user never reads)?
>
>Bounces always go to the return path, which should therefore ALWAYS be
>verified at SMTP time so that bounces can be delivered.


Verification doesn guarantee deliverability, but not that the address
generated is actually read.

>There's a slight bug in Exim's current control=submission implementation
>in that it doesn't force the return path to be the authenticated sender
>address, as it does for local submission via the command line.


There should be a possibility to switch that behavior off.

Greetings
Marc

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