[Rtir] Bounced e-mails

Ruediger Riediger ruediger.riediger at sun.com
Fri Dec 10 11:43:40 EST 2004


Tony Arnold wrote:
> Can anyone offer any advice on how to configure RTIR or the MTA on my
> RTIR system so that bounce messages go somewhere sensible?
> 
> At the moment, if I mistype a e-mail address in an investigation say,
> then the message that comes back saying it has bounced goes to root,
> which is not me and I therefore don't see it.

Add an

Return-Path: <whatever>

header to your templates. See RFC2076. Note: this might eventually be 
overwritten by a smart MTA which wants to prevent sender spoofing.
You might want to try "Errors-To:", this is not a recommended solution, 
but works (most of the time).

Best regards,

	Ruediger Riediger

-- 
Dr. Ruediger Riediger                              Sun Microsystems GmbH
NSG - SunCERT                                             Komturstr. 18a
mailto:Ruediger.Riediger at Sun.com                          D-12099 Berlin
------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTICE:  This email message is for the sole use of the intended
recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information.
Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited.
If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by
reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
PGP 2048RSA/0x2C5020E9          964C E189 0FF0 8882  2BAB 65E2 6912 1FF2
------------------------------------------------------------------------


More information about the Rtir mailing list