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Article #2208

mail bouncing setup

#2208
From: Mikael Behrens
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:25
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Howdy,

I have a mono NeXTstation hooked up to the Internet via SLIP.  I have  
working NeXTMail, but it's kind of a hack since my SLIP server doesn't  
give out permanent IP addresses.  I receive all my mail  to another  
machine, and have a shell script that periodically brings up the SLIP  
connection and copies my mailbox file over to my machine.

I have a problem with bouncing mail: it doesn't.  When I send a mail  
message to a non-existant address, I never hear from it again.  I believe  
this is because the address in the "From:" field in my email messages and  
usenet posts is bogus.  My correct address is in the "Reply-to:" field.   
When a message bounces does it automatically try to return to the "From:"  
field?  Can I make it return to the "Reply-to:" field by changing my  
sendmail.cf file or something?

Any help is appreciated. 

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Mikael Behrens              mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Computer Science student    University of Texas at Austin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!scout.utexas.edu
From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail bouncing setup
Message-ID: <86586@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:25:32 GMT
Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
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