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From: fdc@cliwe.ping.de (Frank D. Cringle)
Subject: Re: Changing Return-Path
Date: 11 Nov 1998 17:06:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt1znanrig.fsf@cliwe.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Anders Melchiorsen's message of "11 Nov 1998 12:48:38 +0100"

Anders Melchiorsen <and@kampsax.dtu.dk> writes:
> What I was wondering was whether the Return-Path: should be my e-mail
> address or the account I am posting from (which is unreachable due to
> a firewall).

If the Return-Path is unreachable due to a firewall, lots of mail
servers will reject the mail, whether the recipient is a mailing list
or not.  Postmasters don't like accepting mail that they won't be able 
to bounce later if the delivery fails.

-- 
Frank Cringle,      fdc@cliwe.ping.de
voice: (+49 2304) 467101; fax: 943357


  reply	other threads:[~1998-11-11 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-10 22:01 Anders Melchiorsen
1998-11-11  9:16 ` Matt Armstrong
1998-11-11 11:48   ` Anders Melchiorsen
1998-11-11 16:06     ` Frank D. Cringle [this message]
1998-11-11 18:14     ` Matt Armstrong
1998-11-11 19:03       ` Karl Kleinpaste

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