Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Use of Errors-To: Message-ID: <1991Mar7.012743.12895@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 01:27:43 GMT References: <88419@sgi.sgi.com> <1991Mar2.212126.3567@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 13 lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: > You're wrong. See RFC 1123 section 5.3.3. Errors go to the sender, AS > SPECIFIED IN THE ENVELOPE. They SHOULD NOT go to any address based on > header information. Can somebody explain to me the reason they made it this way? It seems counter-intuitive to "hide" information in the envelope, when the headers are a perfectly reasonable place to put everything you need to know. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"