Re: bouncing email and "from" address

Will Yardley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:47:01AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 09:51:45AM GMT, Will Yardley wrote:
 
> > You can also add set use_envelope_from to make sure that value is
> > used for the envelope-sender as well as the header sender.
> 
> Bounces in the SMTP sense should have an empty envelope sender,
> but I guess that's not what we're talking about here.

Correct... mutt's "bounce" feature is more like redirecting / forwarding
a message without modifying the other headers. From memory (and from
doing a quick test), it uses the person who resent the message's address
as the envelope-sender.

w
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