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In article <820707393snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
           mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" writes:

>      Destination mail domain
>      From mail address
>      Addressee of recipient.....
[snip] 
> Does this mean that putting (eg) "errors@holly.demon.co.uk" as the From 
> mail address would be a useful idea [*], or am I missing something? Would 
> this be a useful thing for mailing list software (eg SmofList) to set 
> automatically, so that non-delivery messages don't get sent back to the 
> list? Or is DISPC only telling part of the story?

Out of curiosity, I tried this.  I wrote a message with following headers:

    From: philip@siberia.demon.co.uk (Philip McNab)
    To: hamster@non.existent.site.anywhere
    Cc: whale@non.existent.site.anywhere
    Subject: Re: KA9Q .WRK files - Reverse path
    ...

And hacked the .wrk file to read as follows:

     post.demon.co.uk
     errors@siberia.demon.co.uk
     hamster@non.existent.site.anywhere
     whale@non.existent.site.anywhere

When the messages bounced, they were returned to errors@siberia.

Unfortunately, I forgot to send a copy to myself, so I don't
know what happens on a correctly delivered message: I fear that
the headers would start with the line

    From errors@siberia ....

In any case, I suspect that all this is in flagrant breach of some
RFC ...

Philip

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