From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 10:41:38 CDT

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Jay Hall:
> Earlier this week, one of the organizations we communicate with
> regularly changed their network setup. Now, they have a single
> incoming server for all of the branch offices, and each branch office
> has different from and reply to addresses.
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> For example, the from address of an e-mail would be jay.hallnorth.domain.com
> and the reply-to address is jay.halldomain.com. If my
> understanding is correct, address verification contacted
> north.domain.com. Since their outbound server does not accept
> incoming e-mail, the address verification fails.

If they are sending mail with invalid SMTP MAIL FROM addresses,
then the responsible people have broken their mail system. They
need to be educated about RFC 2821.

        Wietse

> Is there a way to work with the reply-to address as opposed to the
> from address for certain domains?
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> Thanks,
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> Jay Hall, Manager of Information Services
> Missouri NEA
> jay.hallmnea.org
> P: 573.634.7014 x1133
> F: 573.634.5645
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