[MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) ( anyone else get this? )

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:03:12PM +1100, rik wrote:
> Anyone else get this? 

yes. i got one too.

> can the way emails are sent be changed ie mw in the from box and and
> the cc having the person who posted the message?

no, because that would be broken.  dealing with broken-ness by breaking
other things is never a good idea.  it's also a really bad idea to
diagnose mail faults and prescribe solutions when you don't have a
thorough understanding of how mail and mailing lists work.

SMTP message headers such as From:, To:, Cc: are *NOT* delivery
instructions, they are *comments* only. they are data, not envelope. any
MTA that regards them as delivery instructions is broken beyond
redemption.


it wouldn't make any difference in this case anyway because it wasn't
the problem.   the message got bounced to you, but the From header
didn't mention your address at all.


> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: <postmaster at team.telstra.com>
> To: <mibz at optushome.com.au>
> [...]

the bounce gets sent To your address...

> From: "" Robert Farrar " \(via GeckoMail\)" <return-gfg687472609-robert-.-secnet.com.au at geckomail.org>
> To: <andrewh at uglybugger.org>
> Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>

but there is no mention of your address in any of the headers.



craig

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