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Hitek333
03-12-2001, 03:30 AM
Does anyone know a reliable way to send email (from a Perl program, using sendmail) such that any bounced mail is returned to a specified address?

Alternatively, is there a way to reliably identify bounced email once it has been returned to the sender?

I've repeatedly searched for information on how to do this, but nothing I've found has been very informative or convincing.

Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, but if anyone could give me some authoritative help, I'd really appreciate it :-)

Terra
03-12-2001, 04:29 AM
sendmail -fblah@blah.com (should work)

You may find the following to protocol sheets to be of interest:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt
and
http://cr.yp.to/proto/mailloops.txt

In short: <> and <#@[]> are your friends...[nbsp][nbsp];)

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Terra
--When all else fails, read RFC1894 with a large grain of salt--
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