Re: Bounced emails [was: An Idea?]

["Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <gunnar at ringlink.org>]

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. I have a couple of comments on
bounced messages, though.
The important issue as regards bounced emails is that the message is
returned to the appropriate address. The appropriate address, IMO, for
messages that are sent out from Ringlink is the "From:" address.
When you use the SMTP option for sending emails, the bounced messages are
returned to the "From:" address, but when you use the sendmail option, I
don't know of any working way to control the address for bounced messages
via the program. Typically they are sent to some pre-defined address for
the server. This is of course totally useless if you (like most web hosting
customers) are on a shared server.
This is why the SMTP option, when available, is preferrable.
Please clarify your point, so even I understand. ;-)
/ Gunnar
James S. Huggins (Ringlink) wrote:
> 
> One of the features that would help, particularly with larger
> webrings, would be the ability to know "who" someone is when
> their email bounces.
> 
> One way to do this would be to have the system (optionally) create
> the email address list with "identifiers".
> 
> For example, this would be a good format for Outlook 2000:
> 
> name name name site siteid <emailaddress>;
> James S. Huggins site 1 <blahblah@somewhere.com>;
> Susan Lindsey site abc <yapyap@elsewhere.com>;
> 
> 
> This way when the email bounced you'd have the name and site ID.
> 
> Has this been suggested before?