SUMMARY: UseErrorsTo option in sendmail

Big thanks to Michael Schulte for a quick response.
This set my mind against using this option and surely
saved me hours of time (I was about to start
rebuilding our sendmail)


--- Michael Schulte <mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu> wrote:
> 
> The word in the O'Reilly book is that "the ErrorsTo:
> header violates 
>    RFC 1123", which seems to require that all errors
> be sent to the 
>    envelope's Mail From: address.
>    
> The O'Reilly book also says that setting the option
> in the version current 
>    at that time (Sendmail v8.8) would send errors to
> the ErrorsTo: address 
>    AS WELL AS the original sender [taken from the
> envelope].
> 
> It will also depend on the sendmail on the receiving
> machine.  Your setting
>    of UseErrorsTo affects only your sendmail (and
> the default is to not
>    set the option).


Original posting:

Have a question on sendmail (Solaris 8).

I would like to be able to use an old-style
UseErrorsTo option on a command line with sendmail so
that I could utilize the Errors-To: field to redirect
bounced messages to an address different from the
envelope sender, e.g.,:

$ /usr/lib/sendmail -f <sender> -t -O UseErrorsTo=True
<<EOT
To: <recipient>
Errors-To: <error recipient>
...
...
EOT
 
It doesn't work, however. Tried the command line
variations, also tried setting UseErrorsTo in
sendmail.cf - to no avail. The messages still bounce
back to the envelope sender as if the new option had
no effect. Any ideas? Could it be that this option has
been deprecated and no longer functional?
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