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