> From: sono-io > > > According to the RFC's, "Return-path" is reserved for use by the transport > servers. It is likely your server is stripping out the suggestion you have > put in > there. > > But I can set it using SMTP, so does sendmail handle things > differently? Unfortunately, my ISP is useless on this issue. =:\ I'm hoping > someone here knows enough about these things to point me in the right > direction. > > > It is also very likely that the bounce messages you expect are not being > sent, due to the long term SPAM epidemic we have been experiencing. Most > mail servers have that feature turned off now. > > Well, I may not get all bounces sent back, but if I could change the > Return-Path, then at least I'd get some of them which is better than nothing.
I would be surprised if you get any bounce messages at all. At this point in time, any server that is sending them may be considered to be misconfigured and might even get shunned by other administrators. But you are in the wrong mailing list to be asking about how mail servers work. The RFCs are not very clear on what "Return-path" is supposed to contain, so it is likely dependent on the software used in each server. I am not very familiar with them, but I suspect even sendmail and postfix will differ in how they handle that header. From my own reading it appears it should parallel the "Received" chain with a path for each relay point, but I'm not a server admin, so I can't be sure of that. Good luck, Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
