> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:16:15 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Oberdorf) > > : >Reply-to: IS the right thing to do, IMO, since it will get > : >people to reply to the correct address. > : > : Unfortunately your opinion is wrong, since it won't get machines to > : reply to the correct address. > [...] > : * The `return path' is the envelope sender address. This tends to > : get used for bounce messages, and therefore must point somewhere > : sensible. (Consider the case of a message with no valid headers > : at all; a bounce must still go somewhere sane.) > : > : * The From: line in the header. This needs to be set correctly so > : that replies go to the right place. > > Indeed? I've had marvelous success with it for over a year > now. The only reference I have on hand is, unfortunately, > the O'Rielly GNU Emacs manual, but they say this much... > > p.102 > > "Mail messages can use a *Reply-to:* field to guarantee that > replies will be sent to the correct place." > > and later on the same page... > > "If you know that you will always receive mail that's been > sent to the addresss /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/, you can do a lot > to solve your problem by putting the address in the > *Reply-to:* field of your outgoing mail" > > I've also recieved bounced mail w/o difficulty, as I recall. > Of course, I'm using sendmail so that *could* cause some > differences. > > Bottom line? Richard's solution will work, with the one > problem we both recognize, so you can use it. My advice is > free, so you can try that too and if it works, it works. > > ~Oly > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Return-Path should not be set by the user. Read the Bat Book (O'Reilly Sendmail book). Use either From: or Reply-To: I recommend using Reply-To: to people because a lot of folks out there *don't* have static IPs *or* fully-qualified hostnames *or* a DNS ADDR reverse map of a fully-qualified hostname. Anyway I'm not going to argue this point any more. RTFM. (The 'F' stands for "funny"). -- ============================================================================== = Jens B. Jorgensen | Blah. Blah blah blah, blah blah. = Citadel Investment Group, Inc. | Blah blah blah blah, blah blah. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] | = [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ==============================================================================
