At 14:44 01/26/2001 Friday, Steve Price wrote:
>Well I'm not quite convinced of this but I'll definitely hang on
>to this bit of advice just in case the lead I'm on now doesn't pan
>out. It seems *listserv* is setting the Errors-To in the original
>message to the list and the mailserver is just doing what it is
>told to do. Either that or the user's mailer is doing it. Here
>are the appropriate parts of the mail header. NOTE: the names
>have been changed to protect the guilty^Winnocent.
>
>>>Errors-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:27:42 -0500
>>>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Sender: [log in to unmask]
>>>From: John Q. Public <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Subject: Some subject line
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
LISTSERV(R) doesn't set ERRORS-TO: (an RFC822 field, not an RFC821
field). All of the fields above are RFC822 fields and mail bouncing is
NOT supposed to use them, just the RFC821 MAIL FROM: field. Many mail
clients do not display RFC821 fields.
Unfortunately broken clients and servers do exist.
/Pete