From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 21:22:30 -0600
. . .
> Another question is about the Mail header. What is the header that I
should
> add into a generated email so that undelivered/bounced emails go to this
> specific email address instead? For example, I send an email to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], it will by default bounce back to my sending
> account. How do I make it bounce to another account instead? Should I use
> Errors-To:, or Undeliverables-To: or any other header?
I've heard of "Bounce-to:" being used, but I'm not hip on the RFC's like
others on the list. : )
steve
I probably don't qualify as "RFC-hip", but I'd like to be, so this query
prompted me to do some digging. The only thing I could find was a
mention of "Errors-To:" in RFC2076. Here's what RFC2076 says (bottom of
page 10):
Address to which notifications Errors-To:, Non-standard,
are to be sent and a request to Return- discouraged.
get delivery notifications. Receipt-To:
Internet standards recommend,
however, the use of RCPT TO and
Return-Path, not Errors-To, for
where delivery notifications are
to be sent.
So the "official" word would seem to be "use the envelope FROM address."
I know that many mailing lists use "Errors-To:", but I'm not sure what
percentage of mailers actually use this header. (Of course, qmail does
not, nor does the one sendmail installation to which I have access.)
[At the top of p11 are a handful of X.400 delivery-related headers,
which are probably even less widely implemented.]
-- Bob Rogers
