Bounces go to the envelope sender, the address used in the SMTP MAIL FROM command.
Not reply-to, nor bounces-to, nor any other address listed in a header. To control where bounces are returned, set the envelope sender. -- Noel Jones On 6/28/2016 1:28 PM, Chip wrote: > In standard email campaign software like phplist, constantcontact, > mailchimp all of those popular email campaign software many of which > use Exim and are used literally by millions of email campaigners, > the bounces-to is where bounces are expected to be returned so that > they can be effectively removed from mailings and people don't' > receive spam. It is an very important part of email campaigns and > reduces by great amounts the amount of spam that is manufactured. > > Okay maybe it's not in RFC's but I would it would be at least a > recommendation that bounces can be routed back to bounces-to rather > than reply-to. After all, why have the field at all if it's not > used properly. > > > > > On 06/28/2016 01:51 PM, Noel Jones wrote: >> On 6/28/2016 12:12 PM, Chip wrote: >>> Meaning there are no standards for the way >>> emailers should respond to bounces? >> bounces always go to the envelope sender, regardless of any >> unrelated junk in the headers. >> >> >> >> >
