On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:55:15PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
| * Derrick 'dman' Hudson [02-07-14 06:02:40 +0200] wrote:
| > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:08:52PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
| 
| > | Hmmm...  Perhaps I've misunderstood envelope; I thought that it was all
| > | of the headers.
| 
| > No, the envelope normally isn't in the headers at all.  It will only
| > appear there if you configure your MTA to add 'Return-Path:' and
| > 'Envelope-To:' headers.
| 
| Doesn't a receiving MTA set the value of Return-Path: to the
| result of MAIL FROM?

IFF you configured it to do so.  At least some MTAs don't put a
Return-Path: header in by default.

Also, what happens in the case of MTA1 delivering the message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], then the user uses fetchmail to re-deliver it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]?  That could result in 2 Return-Path:
headers ...

The envelope really is separate from the rest of the message
(headers+body), but some MTAs can be / are configured to store it in
the headers of the message for the convenience of the final recipient.

-D

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