Andrew Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> As part of an earlier question I found out that my ISP will not relay my
> bounce e-mails because the FROM portion of the envelope is left empty.
> My ISP is in no way going to assist me in my problem and I really cannot
> switch at this time so I'm looking for a solution. So... does anyone
> know how I can add some sort of sender info to the Qmail bounces before
> they go to qmail-remote? Do I have to hack qmail-remote.c directly?
Doing this would require hacking qmail-send most likely (I'd have to
check) but it would be an extremely bad idea. The SMTP RFCs require
that bounce messages be sent with an empty envelope sender. The reason
for this is to prevent bounce loops -- because the other rule is that
you never send bounces or other delivery status messages to the empty
envelope sender.
Your ISP is in violation of the SMTP RFC (2821 and 821). If they're
unwilling to conform to the published standards for the Internet, don't
use them.
They should also be added to the lists at rfc-ignorant.org ASAP.
Charles
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