On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Stan Ryckman wrote: > Well, Ben's terminology is a bit sloppy. Senders (LISTSERV in this > case) never set a Return-Path: header. What happens (if I may strain > an analogy a bit) is that email goes into an "envelope" which bears an > envelope-sender and envelope-recipient (sometimes referred to as > RFC821 headers, SMTP MAIL FROM and SMTP RCPT TO, or similiar terms -- > after the document and protocol which describe the envelope -- but I > digress). The errors-to address Ben refers to is the envelope-sender. Ah, thanks, that clarifies things perfectly... > Since you mentioned pine, you may have a UNIX "mbox" mailbox. Try > just looking at it with "more" (and/or configure your pine to enable > the "h" command to look at full headers) and you may well see a line > that starts with "From " (no colon) just before the rest of the > headers--with an address and a date/time. This is another place the > envelope sender is commonly stored (the date/time is that of receipt), > and when it is thusly stored, it is rare that a Return-Path header > would be added just to write the same information a second time. The ``full headers'' command does not display the ``From '' line. I have to manually look at the actuall folder. Jessica -- Jessica Rasku, Box 270, Rossland, B.C., V0G 1Y0, (250) 362-5701, LinuxBox: (250) 362-9668. List manager: [log in to unmask] send command help ---- To get help with majordomo or lists ---- To get a list of all lists on server. WWW: <http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/8749>