On Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 04:19 CEST,
     Jeff Huang <jbhu...@scut.edu.cn> wrote:

> How to determine the mail from when the mail is sending.
> 
> For example,I send a email to i...@domain2.com from the domain1.com(the
> sender is i...@domain1.com).
> 
> And the id2 at domain2.com is a aliase to i...@domain3.com.
> 
> So what is the mail from when the email forward from domain2.com to
> domain3.com?

The envelope sender does not change, so it's still i...@domain1.com.

(Theoretically it could change, of course, as the receiving server for
domain2.com could do anything it pleases with the email.)

> I think the return-path is the same as reverse-path which can be
> report errors.
> 
> Is that right?Which is the relation between mail from and returen-path
> and reverse-path.

I haven't even heard the term "reverse path" before. Most likely it's
someone mixing it up with the more common "return path", so you can
assume they're synonyms.

-- 
Magnus Bäck
mag...@dsek.lth.se

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