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Re: Sendmail white paper

2004-11-24 19:41:09
Rand Wacker wrote:

Return-Path: is a reflection of the RFC2821 MAIL FROM
address, and is entirely at the discretion of the MDA as to
whether or not to insert it.

The author of RfC 3834 used a stronger version of this problem:

| If the response is to be generated after delivery, and there
| is no Return-Path field in the subject message, there is an
| implementation or configuration error in the SMTP server that
| delivered the message or gatewayed the message outside of
| SMTP.  A Personal or Group responder SHOULD NOT deliver a
| response to any address other than that in the Return-Path
| field, even if the Return-Path field is  missing.  It is
| better to fix the problem with the mail delivery system than
| to rely on heuristics to guess the appropriate destination of
| the response.  Such heuristics have been known to cause
| problems in the past.

In other words, "Sender ID" is broken by design.  Bye, Frank



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