From: mouss (moussnetoyen.net)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2008 - 02:57:20 CDT

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Erwan David wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:54:40AM CEST, Magnus Bäck <magnusdsek.lth.se> said:
>> On Mon, August 25, 2008 8:32 am, Stefan Palme said:
>>
>>> this is a question not exactly postfix related: When a mail server
>>> is about to send a bounce message to the original sender of an
>>> undeliverable mail - which address will this bounce be sent to?
>>>
>>> The Return-Path? The address from the "From" header?
>>> Or even to the "Reply-To" address?
>> Bounces are always sent to the envelope sender address. That address is
>> also added as the Return-Path header by the MTA upon final delivery (i.e.
>> you won't find the Return-Path header on the wire and you can't use that
>> header to affect where bounces go).
>
> If I recall correctly there used to be a "Mail-Error-To" header, but I
> doubt it was ever a standard header.
>

you probably meant Errors-To. "non-standard, discouraged" (See RFC 2076).

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