Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!burl!hou3c!MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA From: MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: "Return-Path" vs. "From" Message-ID: <250@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:51:55 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.250 Posted: Thu Feb 9 14:51:55 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 07:22:05 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 17 To: Mishkin@YALE.ARPA Cc: header-people@MIT-MC.ARPA, Ellis@YALE.ARPA In-Reply-To: Message from "Nathaniel Mishkin" of Thu 9 Feb 84 07:30:50-PST Postal-Address: 725 Mariposa Ave. #103; Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: (415) 497-1407 (Stanford); (415) 968-1052 (residence) Your message implies that for some reason you actually care what is in the Return-Path header line. You shouldn't. I can put whatever I damn well please in there. If it pleases me to put in the physical login-id/host-name in there, that's my business not yours. Any presumption on your part that there is any relation between the Return-Path and any other header line (including Sender!) is faulty. It can also be argued that your mail reader is faulty for even presenting the Return-Path information to the user. Return-Path is in the header only to assist mail transports which don't have the concept of out-of-band envelopes. Since you're on ARPANET, it's irrelevant. -------