Hi, > > It happens very very often that users enter an invalid email > > address or just senseless texts. So the webmaster-address > > receives all the backscatter from undeliverable mail. > > This is not backscatter. this is a legitimate bounce.
Ok, sorry, I've used the wrong term - I'm talking about exactly those ligitimate bounce messages. > > Now I want to change the envelope FROM (and the header From) > > address to a non-existing address (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]), > > and set the Reply-To-Header to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Instead of playing bad games, set the envelope sender to a specific > address. > > > The idea behind this: the backscatter caused by undeliverable > > mail will go to /dev/null, while all regular replies to one > > of those auto-generated emails will reach the webmaster. > > > > and what if I want to complain by replying to the From or Reply-to? what > if as a new admin, I want you to cease sending to an old address? ... etc. Hmmm. Maybe I did not understand you, or you me... ;-) I want the From address to be set to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] A mail sent to this address will cause no error, but nobody will read those emails. The Reply-To-address will become a really existing address which is read by someone, so that replying to an email works as expected. So all those "legitimate bounces", which go to the envelope FROM address (= address in From: header, caused by our email sending tool) will be received by our server, but never read by someone; and all ligitmate replies, which go to the Reply-To address, will be received and read normally. Because bounces go to the envelope FROM, and I dont want to receive bounces, I have to set the envelope FROM to a "dummy" mail address. The address in the From: header could be "my" email address, but because of limitations in the used email sending tool the From: header address and the envelope FROM always equal. Maybe the weak point here is the From: header address being always the same as the envelope FROM ? > don't think this will be a simple projet: it is not. make sure to get > it right. every time you send a message, you will be judged. and if > you are judged wrong, you won't have any chance to fix thing (once you > are in our private ACLs, you will never be able to get out. and once > hotmail/yahoo/.... have computed your "reputation", you'll have ahard > time changing it). This part I dont't understand. When our web application sends the following mail: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] using [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the "MAIL FROM" during SMTP communication, and there is no "somebody" at Yahoo, a bounce message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be the result. This address is a valid address, but all emails sent to this address will be thrown away as soon as received. How wants Yahoo detect this and blame me for this? Ahm - maybe we misunderstood in this point: all references to "example.com" in my postings should be replaced by my REAL domain name - of course I do not want to send mails with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as sender address - I've used it just as a placeholder... :) Regards -stefan-
