Josh Miller wrote:
On 08/31/2011 01:27 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
Here's a thought I just thunk, folks: some scum, apparently in eastern Europe, has harvested my email, and is using it in the Reply-To: in its spamming efforts. Now, I realize that some mails go out from
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Anyway, the SMTP server should send the delivery failure to the envelope address, which may be different to both the From and Reply-To addresses.
That would be lovely. Unfortunately, a high percentage seem to use the Reply-To address. Trust me, the last four or five months, I've gotten
The Reply-To address is an optional component of the email header and is not used in email routing by mail servers.
I'm well aware that it's an optional component. <snip>
Mail server will send NDRs (non-delivery receipts) back to the envelope sender every time with no regard for From or Reply-To.
You're saying it uses the envelope, not if exists Reply-To, else From? The problem I have with that is that a few of them have returned the email, with full headers, and I see the *only* reference to my email address is in the Reply-To.
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