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Article #700Bouncing mail
From: John Gardiner Myers
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1992 20:24
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1992 20:24
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jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart) writes: > I certainly feel abused by this practise. I had to write a script to bounce > undeliverable mail (account disk space full, no mail folder, etc.) on our > mailframe. Messages from a LISTSERV can't be handled in the same way as > regular mail because the Reply-To: header line points back to the list -- > bouncing the message to that address causes a mail loop. You shouldn't be bouncing mail to "Reply-To:". You should bounce it to the envelope return address, as specified in section 5.3.3. of RFC 1123. Many mailers put the envelope return address in the "Return-Path:" header. There exist broken list exploders that put the list submission address in the envelope return address, but then that's their problem. -- _.John G. Myers Internet: jgm+@CMU.EDU LoseNet: ...!seismo!ihnp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up
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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm36+References:
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd322,84cfa015f81b8547 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd322,public X-Google-Thread: 109803,84cfa015f81b8547 X-Google-Attributes: gid109803,public X-Google-Thread: 10f432,84cfa015f81b8547 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f432,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-07-16 09:53:54 PST Organization: Special Projects, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm36+ Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,news.software.readers,bit.admin Message-ID: <MeNRg8y00WBwE6dt42@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1992 16:24:40 -0400 From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Bouncing mail In-Reply-To: <jstewart.711310628@cunews> References: <1992Jul15.015543.22595@mits.mdata.fi> <1992Jul15.151734.22118@csd.brispoly.ac.uk> <1992Jul16.005647.10015@mits.mdata.fi> <1992Jul16.023706.32373@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1992Jul16.165608.17970@utdallas.edu> <jstewart.711310628@cunews> Lines: 20