Some people forge the Return-Path.
Others add it prematurely.

I’d trust the VERP over re-stating the Friendly, but who knows.

Sometimes the safest thing, if you are the actual end receiver, is to remove 
any Return-Path headers in the message, because gosh darned it, they are only 
there to save the state of the RFC 821 values, and technically serve no other 
legitimate purpose.

Aloha,
Michael.
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From: mailop <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Autumn Tyr-Salvia
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:01 PM
To: Mailop <[email protected]>
Subject: [mailop] 2 Return-Path headers?

Hello,

I'm looking at headers for a particular message, and noticed two different 
Return-Path headers. The message is being sent by an ESP. One Return-Path uses 
a VERP address with the ESP's domain, and the other uses the same address as 
the friendly From:.

I haven't seen this in other headers before - is this common? Why would there 
be 2? I spent some quality time with RFC 2822 and couldn't determine if it's 
spec-legal to have two Return-Path headers or not. More to the point, it's 
using the one with the ESP domain for checking SPF, which is not what the 
desired behavior.

I can reach out directly to the ESP in question to get more info, but wanted to 
ask this group first if there's some other resource I should consult for a firm 
understanding of using multiple Return-Path headers before I have that 
conversation.


Thanks,

Autumn Tyr-Salvia
tyrsalvia@gmail
atyrsalvia@agari
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