>>>>> "Gagan" == Gagan Grewal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gagan> Hi Raj, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:25:56AM +0530, Raj
Gagan> Mathur wrote:
>> You can set the From: address (Message From, not Envelope From)
>> in most mail clients... you are using Mutt, I see, so it should
>> be trivial in .muttrc. After that it doesn't really matter
>> what the envelope From is.
Gagan> Trying to get my fundas right ... H?P?Return-Path: <the
Gagan> address where mail should be sent back in case of delivery
Gagan> failure> H??From: <the Reply To address as interpreted by
Gagan> an MUA, this is copied from the senders MUA itself.> So
Gagan> when you _reply_ to my mail ... you'd use 'H??From:' ... if
Gagan> you don't want to even accept my mail ... you'll instruct
Gagan> the MT/DA on your box to return mail to 'H?P?Return-Path'
Gagan> instead of appending it to your inbox. Correct me if I am
Gagan> wrong ... The reason I want to confirm this is that b4 I
Gagan> hacked .cf ... I _did_ the tweaks in .muttrc ... but the
Gagan> problem was elsewhere.
Man, you're getting real deep. As far as I can see what you're saying
is correct with one proviso:
You can reject mail either at the MTA or the user level. If you're
rejecting at the MTA level, e.g. using sendmail's access feature,
you'd reject based on envelope From address. OTOH if you reject at
user level (e.g. using procmail) you would PROBABLY reject based on
sender address in the message itself. Of course, you could reject on
other parameters too, including the envelope From.
Gagan> So I'll repeat ... since the MTA is running on localhost
Gagan> without SMART_HOST ... I'd rather have my mail bounced back
Gagan> to localhost and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... coz that'll
Gagan> (potentially) make fetchmail to pull a few more messages
Gagan> during mail reception in case any mails were not delivered.
Hmm, don't know the answer to that one. I'd guess it depends on where
the message gets rejected. If the receiving MTA rejects it, then a
localhost return address is fine. However if the receiving MTA
accepts the message but the user rejects (throuhg procmail, e.g.) then
a localhost address may not be such a good idea, since you won't get
the bounce.
Gagan> [snip]
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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