Re: [exim] Messing with return_path

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Author: Magnus Holmgren
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Messing with return_path
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 13:56, Chris Lear took the opportunity to say:
> I've been asked to implement the (deprecated) Errors-To header in exim
> for some mail. (Or achieve the same result some other way...)
>
> A windows server on the network is generating mailing-list-style mail,
> and there's a requirement to have the errors go to an address that isn't
> the same as the address in the From header. It seems they either don't
> know how to set the envelope sender, or are reluctant to recode a
> windows application to be more sensible. However, they can set an
> Errors-To header, and relay through exim. I said I'd be able to deal
> with it from there.
>
> Anyway, I'm now doing this in a transport:
>
> return_path = ${if def:header_errors-to:{$h_errors-to:} fail }


You need to set the aptly named errors_to option of a suitable router instead.
return_path is just what the transport sends to the remote server in the MAIL
command, or adds to the mail header in the Return-path field.

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