Hello,

a little bit off topic - but maybe someone can comment this...

We are running a website where users can register themself, use
features like "send this page to a friend" etc. Those features
make the web application send an email to a user. The from
addresses (envelope FROM and header From:) are set to an
existing email address (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]).

It happens very very often that users enter an invalid email
address or just senseless texts. So the webmaster-address
receives all the backscatter from undeliverable mail.

Now I want to change the envelope FROM (and the header From)
address to a non-existing address (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]),
and set the Reply-To-Header to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The idea behind this: the backscatter caused by undeliverable
mail will go to /dev/null, while all regular replies to one
of those auto-generated emails will reach the webmaster.

Is this the "state-of-the-art" way to solve this? Or are there
any other, better solutions? 
[Using captchas or similar does not really solve the problem, 
because even really existing human beings often enter senseless 
stuff like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ;-)]

Thanks
Best regards
-stefan-





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