In <419D3C92(_dot_)2D1F(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> Frank Ellermann
<nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de> writes:
wayne wrote:
You many have only recently realized that the 2821.MAILFROM
is the bounces to address
While talking with the author of STD 11 this argument doesn't
fly.
You would think so, but that is almost exactly what Dave Crocker
claimed at the IETF-59 MARID BoF.
Dave said:
A thing that I only recently realized and needs to be stressed is
that the MAIL FROM field is not MAIL FROM field semantics -- sorry
-- it is not "mail from" semantics. It's mislabelled. The
semantic definition of the MAIL FROM field in the SMTP spec is
quite correct. It's a bounces address. And it should be called
BOUNCES TO to get the semantic right. So any one who really
thinks it pertains to the author of a message is, is suffering
from the bad choice of string.
(Punctuation and capitalization are, of course, mine.)
-wayne