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 ?
--- 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 -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be