Hello,
the MAIL FROM: ... or in Smtp client FromName, what is original meaning
of it? I have tryed with several SMTP servers and I can fill in
whatever I want, it is always accepted, and for the mail reader only the
headers are used.
Or could it be that some SMTP servers have a list with valid
Wilfried Mestdagh wrote:
Hello Arno,
So if I understeand it right, when the server is not possible to deliver
the mail, then it uses that address to return an 'undeliverable' mail ?
Yes, correct.
Arno Garrels
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Rgds, Wilfried
http://www.mestdagh.biz
Sunday, July 17, 2005, 19:05,
On Jul 17, 2005, at 13:05, Arno Garrels wrote:
A server may reject a none local From address, but practically most
servers
don't, since anybody can send any address in the Mail From command.
However that address is used by the server to build the Return-Path,
that's
why we get so much
A server may reject a none local From address, but practically most
servers don't
Several UK ISPs do validate the From address as being one of their
domains, BT ADSL in particular, to stop false Froms being used.
But this is very inconvenient for people using ADSL for connectivity
only with
