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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!sooner.palo-alto.ca.us!ima!kehres
- From: kehres@ima.com (Tim Kehres)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
- Subject: Re: Return-Path or From: ?
- Message-ID: <65@ima.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 02:38:03 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.024211.20761@ryptyde.cts.com>
- Organization: International Messaging Associates, Menlo Park, California
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Jul27.024211.20761@ryptyde.cts.com> scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) writes:
-
- : I have heard conflicting reports on this. Hopefully someone out there
- : knows the whole story.
- :
- : Which is the correct field for a mailer to use when getting the address
- : from a message to reply to it:
- :
- : Return-Path: *or* From:
-
- The Return-Path field is to be used by the message transport, in the case
- errors are detected in routing. The From:, and Reply-To: fields are to be
- used by user agents in constructing default return addresses. The Return-Path
- field usually reflects the SMTP MAIL FROM value, whereas the From: field is
- what the original UA constructs.
-
- Regards,
-
- Tim Kehres
-