Hi. I've been meaning for some time to post a followup to the earlier email discussion specifically regarding headers, i don't have time to go into all the details about list headers. But anyway, RFC 2822: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html Has the answer. The sender is the agent responsible for sending the message (i.e. webmas...@...) >From is the person the message is from -- the author even if it's not the sender (there's is zero reason to set Reply-To:).
So the answer is: From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] There's also the SMTP envelope from address, but that's another issue... -Craig PS: for mailing lists, the other RFC of major interest is 2369 ( http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html ) and there are a few others of minor interest... On Sep 8, 12:11 pm, Stig Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The majority of all websites have some kind of contact form. Generally > it accepts the user's email address, name and a message. > In order to make it easy to respond to these messages you might set > email headers like: > > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > > So then responding to the message is possibly by hitting 'Reply'. > There is also another method using email headers like: > > From: [email protected] > Sender: [email protected] > > This also allows you to respond by hitting 'Reply'. Both of these > options are not going to be blocked by any SPF policy > (seehttp://www.openspf.org/Introduction). > > Which of these two options are 'best practice'? Any idea what the > benefits of either of these are (other than the way the headers appear > in an email client)? > > There is another options, the cowboy option, setting the 'From' to be > the user's email address. This WILL be blocked by their domain's SPF > policy, and anyone doing this should fix their mailers... > Interested to hear everyone's opinions, > > Cheers, > Stig > > -- > Stig Manninghttp://www.sdm.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
