mail bouncing setup

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1 total messages Started by Mikael Behrens Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:25

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Author: 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. 

--
Mikael Behrens              mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Computer Science student    University of Texas at Austin

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