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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:59:39PM -0700, Michael A. Chase wrote:
> That's one of the banes of email lists. The reply-to address for any mail
> you send here is your email address, so if it bounces from any of the
> billions of addresses in the list, you get the bounce message.
Then the SMTP server reporting the error is severely broken w.r.t. its
implementation of SMTP. Any errors should go back to either the envelope
address or an address specified by the Return-Path header, and not to any
other header address. This behavior is mandated by RFC2821 (Sec. 6.1). The
wording there leaves no room for doubt on where the error is supposed to go
(littered with MUSTs and MUST NOTs with nary a MAY in sight).
This particular list does rewrite both the envelope and Return-Path to point to
what is presumably a list admin (or bounce-handling automaton). Any server
ignoring these is in grievous error and needs to be fixed or replaced with
compliant software.
Anyway, this is esoteric for dbi-users. I just thought one should know where
the true error lies.
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Stephen Clouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Programmer, IQ Coordinator Project Lead
The IQ Group, Inc. <http://www.theiqgroup.com/>
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