On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:07:05PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > > > Is there significance to the Return-path value? > > > > Basically, it tells the addressee ``Don't reply to the address in the > > `From:' field, but to this one/these, please.'' > > > > See [1]RFC 822, section 4.4.3 for details. > > RFC 822 does not say that. It says that Return-Path "is intended to > identify a path back to the originator of the message", and in the next > sentence explicitly differentiates this from Reply-To. Return-Path is > more to indicate where bounces would go (although in practice you'd use > the SMTP envelope sender instead).
I mis-read Return-path for Reply-to, obviously; I'm sorry for the noise; thank you for a correction, Colin. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9
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