On Dec 18, 2007 10:39 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Daniel Brown wrote:
> > On Dec 18, 2007 10:17 AM, Richard Heyes <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Emails that bounce get sent back to the address in the Return-Path:
> >> header. Correct?
> >
> > Yes, sir.
> >
>
> Except when they go to the envelope sender or the Errors-To address..... ;)
>
> "Errors-To: This is a non-standard RFC2822 message header added by
> sendmail and other e-mail clients.
>
> Ordinarily, errors are bounced to the envelope sender. The "Errors-To:"
> header specifies the address, or addresses, to which sendmail should
> send additional notification of delivery errors. This header is intended
> for use by mailing lists, in order to prevent errors in a list from
> being resent to the list as a whole. "
>
> Col.
There's also the non-standard "bounce-handler-*" header, but it's
extremely limited use made me feel it wasn't worth mentioning. Your
point, however, Colin, was worth mentioning. ;-P
That aside, coincidentally, I'm suddenly receiving a lot of
bounces from the list this morning. Even on messages that were
properly delivered, and to which replies were issued. Anyone else
getting these?
Example:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at lists.php.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line. (#5.4.6)
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