Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, Bibliothek
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:48:51 CET
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         Michael Schaarwaechter <MISC@ZB.UB.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
Subject:      Mail Bouncer

Here's what I wrote some days ago:

> I was just testing our mail-transfer (if you read this mail, it works
> :-)), and I wondered if there is any internetaddress which just replies
> incoming mail with a comment "Mail received at..." and the included mail
> itself.
> Ok, I can write to User NOONE@<any internet address>, but this will be
> much reading work for the postmaster at this address....
> Does anyone know such a address? Please email me directly, not to the
> list.
> Thanx!
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This is what I got (Thanx, Jan!)
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Michael,
Try bouncer@nic.near.net, it does just what you're asking for.  Perhaps
this is worth mentioning on novell@suvm.  I'll leave that for you to
decide.  I would be interested in other similar sites though. :-)
Happy bouncing,
Jan.
--
Jan Q. Janssens
   (Some of the signature deleted)
EARN/BITNET :jqjansse@BBRBFU60
Internet : jqjansse@vub.ac.be
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And here's what I got for my test-mail:
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This reply is being mailed to both the RFC821 Envelope Sender (from the
SMTP MAIL FROM:<> field) and to the RFC822 Reply-To: or From: header field.
These addresses are:

@mail.germany.eu.net:MISC%zb.ub.uni-dortmund.de@zx1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de
Michael Schaarwaechter  <MISC@zb.ub.uni-dortmund.de>

The mail system on these hosts and the MX records in the Domain Name System
should be set up to allow both responses to reach you.  (The Envelope
Sender is used for mailers sending reports of delivery problems and the
reply-to or from fields are used when a receipient tries to reply to your
mail).  If one or both messages don't reach you, they (should) be returned
to our postmaster automatically.  He, in turn, will try to get the reply to
you manually. You should investigate these cases because it means some
piece of the puzzle is not set up correctly.
Note that our mailer is somewhat forgiving.  Even if both copies do make it
back to you, that does not guarantee that the header of your message is
strictly "correct" per RFC822.  If you are unsure about the correctness of
your header, check them against the grammar specified in RFC822 (FTP the
file: rfc/rfc822.txt from nnsc.nsf.net).
The NEARnet Staff hopes this service is useful.  Please send any comments
to nearnet-staff@nic.near.net.

Thanks!

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The following is what we received from you.  Our mailer does some header
munging but this is basically what most any Internet site would see.

(Usual Header and my mail deleted)

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It's worth trying!


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Michael Schaarwaechter           |Phone    +49 231 755 4050 or 4207
Universitaet Dortmund, Bibliothek|FAX      +49 231 727 5021 or 756 902
Vogelpothsweg 76                 |Bitnet   UBIX03@DDOHRZ11.BITNET
D - 4600 Dortmund 50, Germany    |Internet MISC@ZB.UB.UNI-DORTMUND.DE
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