Hello Arno,

So if I understeand it right, when the server is not possible to deliver
the mail, then it uses that address to return an 'undeliverable' mail ?

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Rgds, Wilfried
http://www.mestdagh.biz

Sunday, July 17, 2005, 19:05, Arno Garrels wrote:

> Hello Wilfried,

>> the MAIL FROM: ... or in Smtp client FromName, what is original meaning
>> of it?  I have tryed with several SMTP servers and I can fill in
>> whatever I want, it is always accepted, and for the mail reader only the
>> headers are used.
>> 
>> Or could it be that some SMTP servers have a list with valid FROM names
>> to accept mail from ?

> A server may reject a none local From address, but practically most servers
> don't, since anybody can send any address in the Mail From command.
> However that address is used by the server to build the Return-Path, that's
> why we get so much bounces from SPAM or Viruses using our e-mail address :(

> Arno Garrels
 
>> --
>> Rgds, Wilfried
>> http://www.mestdagh.biz

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