[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl V Streeter) wrote on 10.02.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ian Jackson writes: > > > > This won't set the return path and is therefore broken. > > I think I'm missing something fundamental, here. Isn't the return-path > supposed to be set by the last transport agent that delivers the message? > (RFC 822) The *field* Return-Path:, yes. The information is there all the time since passing the *first* transport agent, in the MAIL FROM: envelope field (RFC 822). (And it's called the "return path" even when it's the contents of MAIL FROM:.) > If so, then why won't rewriting the From field make that happy? (or does it Because the From: field has nothing to do with it. RFC 822 doesn't use it anywhere; to the receiving MTA, it's just data, like the message body. > use the received data or something else?) > > Is there an RFC (later than 822) that I should be looking at? Nope, 822 contains it all, except for some fine tuning not needed for this discussion. MfG Kai
