Re: mutt and Return-path
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > Is there significance to the Return-path value?
>
> Basically, it tells the addressee ``Don't reply to the address in the
> `From:' field, but to this one/these, please.''
>
> See [1]RFC 822, section 4.4.3 for details.
RFC 822 does not say that. It says that Return-Path "is intended to
identify a path back to the originator of the message", and in the next
sentence explicitly differentiates this from Reply-To. Return-Path is
more to indicate where bounces would go (although in practice you'd use
the SMTP envelope sender instead).
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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