Sendmail in this case was and is broken. The RFCs REQUIRE the bounce to
be sent to the envelope sender NOT the From: address in the mail headers.
Fix your scripts. qmail's behavior is correct.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Joel Shellman wrote:
> I do appreciate everyone's responses, unfortunately they all
> gave the same solution which is unacceptable. We run
> numerous clients and it would not be proper to require the
> cgi-script to do so and should not be necessary. I should
> have said that changing the cgi scripts is impractical.
>
> Sendmail handled this situation fine by returning it to the
> user who sent it. There must be some way to set up qmail so
> it will use the From header for bounces instead of the
> return-path, or set the return-path to the from. If you
> notice in the headers below, the From: header is set
> correctly to the one the bounce should be returned to.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel Shellman
> knOcean Interactive Corporation
> http://corp.knOcean.com/
>
> Mate Wierdl wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 11:18:53AM -0700, Joel Shellman wrote:
> > > I am a recent convert from sendmail to qmail (of just
> > > several days) and have run into a difficulty. Using
> > > sendmail, if I automatically sent email from a cgi script,
> > > and it bounced--it would bounce back to the user. However,
> > > right now with the qmail setup, I (being the postmaster) am
> > > getting all the returned mail. How can I fix this?
> > >
> > > Here is an example:
> > >
> > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Received: (qmail 7386 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Jan 1999
> > > 03:42:13 -0000
> > > Date: 29 Jan 1999 03:42:13 -0000
> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Life Styles Plus - Your submission & Info
> > >
> > > Those are the headers of the email that bounced. Apparently
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't exist. Why was this
> > > email not bounced back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? I see the
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which would indeed
> > > go to me)--is that the problem?
> >
> > Yes, the bounce goes to the envelope sender which is the address in the
> > Return-Path header. Before you (the script) send the mail, set, for
> > example, MAILUSER, MAILHOST and QMAILINJECT=f. See man qmail-inject and FAQ.
> >
> > Or you can use qmail-inject directly to send the message and use the -f flag.
> >
> > Mate
> > Mate
>
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