James Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> TMDA requires that the remote SMTP server inserts a Return-Path:
> header, as per the SMTP standard, RFC 821
> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt pp. 21/22), and clarified in
> RFC 2821 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt), section 4.4, Trace
> Information.  Unfortunately, not all SMTP servers do this.
>
> How are others dealing with this problem?

This isn't a problem that frequently arises as the most commonly used
MTAs (among TMDA users at least) all add a Return-Path field.

> Here is are example headers from an e-mail from an IMail server after it
> had been retrieved with getmail, and its void of the Envelope-Sender in
> the header:

Does IMail perhaps set a $SENDER variable in the environment?  If so,
it would be possible to have procmail (running on the IMail server)
prepend a Return-Path field to the message before delivery.
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