sending mails bounced to address different from sender address

11 Apr 2006 8:52 PM

SharpSmith

hi all
i have a very specific question regarding emails sending and googling
doesn't help me
is a way exists to send email using .NET framework (System.Web.Mail or
something else)
and have the "from" address to be X
but if the message is bounced from not existing address or whatever, it
will be returned to adress Y ?

i tried to work by approach described in that article :
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/clean_your_address_list.asp

it looks streigforard, but author is using easymail object
with System.Web.Mail i did not find any way to set OptionFlags to
prevent auto-creation of reverse-path

so , my code looks exactly like described in the article, but without
OptionFlag
and when i send mail to unavailable address, i got bounce to email
specified in "FROM" header

my code example if it can help :
<pre>
MailMessage oMsg = new MailMessage();
// bounced emails goes to email specified in oMsg.From
// sender name displayed for recipient is
oMsg.Headers["From"]oMsg.Headers.Add("Reply-To", oMsgDetails.ReplyTo);
oMsg.Headers.Add("From", oMsgDetails.Sender); oMsg.From =
txtBounceTo.Text ; //reverse-path
oMsg.Subject = oMsgDetails.Subject;
oMsg.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;
oMsg.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;
oMsg.To = emailAddress;
oMsg.Body = oMsgDetails.Content;
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = mailServer;
SmtpMail.Send(oMsg);
</pre>

appreciate any help
Thanks

11 Apr 2006 10:04 PM

Jeff Dillon

One way would be to set up a rule in the inbox for X to forward any messages
that have a specific text in the subject line to Y

No need to cross-post so much.

Jeff
<SharpSm***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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news:1144788771.320152.235660@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> hi all
> i have a very specific question regarding emails sending and googling
> doesn't help me
> is a way exists to send email using .NET framework (System.Web.Mail or
> something else)
> and have the "from" address to be X
> but if the message is bounced from not existing address or whatever, it
> will be returned to adress Y ?
>
> i tried to work by approach described in that article :
> http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/clean_your_address_list.asp
>
>
> it looks streigforard, but author is using easymail object
> with System.Web.Mail i did not find any way to set OptionFlags to
> prevent auto-creation of reverse-path
>
> so , my code looks exactly like described in the article, but without
> OptionFlag
> and when i send mail to unavailable address, i got bounce to email
> specified in "FROM" header
>
> my code example if it can help :
> <pre>
> MailMessage oMsg = new MailMessage();
> // bounced emails goes to email specified in oMsg.From
> // sender name displayed for recipient is
> oMsg.Headers["From"]oMsg.Headers.Add("Reply-To", oMsgDetails.ReplyTo);
> oMsg.Headers.Add("From", oMsgDetails.Sender); oMsg.From =
> txtBounceTo.Text ; //reverse-path
> oMsg.Subject = oMsgDetails.Subject;
> oMsg.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;
> oMsg.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;
> oMsg.To = emailAddress;
> oMsg.Body = oMsgDetails.Content;
> SmtpMail.SmtpServer = mailServer;
> SmtpMail.Send(oMsg);
> </pre>
>
> appreciate any help
> Thanks
>

15 Apr 2006 12:34 PM

Christopher Reed

I'm not sure if you can do this systematically because you are really at the
mercy of the receiver. If an email goes into a mail server where it will
bounce automatically, the email program on that server can be configured to
use either the From address or the Reply-To address. Thus, you have no
control over and can only hope that they'll use your Reply-To address.

--
Christopher A. Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."

<SharpSm***@gmail.com> wrote in message

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news:1144788771.320152.235660@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> hi all
> i have a very specific question regarding emails sending and googling
> doesn't help me
> is a way exists to send email using .NET framework (System.Web.Mail or
> something else)
> and have the "from" address to be X
> but if the message is bounced from not existing address or whatever, it
> will be returned to adress Y ?
>
> i tried to work by approach described in that article :
> http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/clean_your_address_list.asp
>
>
> it looks streigforard, but author is using easymail object
> with System.Web.Mail i did not find any way to set OptionFlags to
> prevent auto-creation of reverse-path
>
> so , my code looks exactly like described in the article, but without
> OptionFlag
> and when i send mail to unavailable address, i got bounce to email
> specified in "FROM" header
>
> my code example if it can help :
> <pre>
> MailMessage oMsg = new MailMessage();
> // bounced emails goes to email specified in oMsg.From
> // sender name displayed for recipient is
> oMsg.Headers["From"]oMsg.Headers.Add("Reply-To", oMsgDetails.ReplyTo);
> oMsg.Headers.Add("From", oMsgDetails.Sender); oMsg.From =
> txtBounceTo.Text ; //reverse-path
> oMsg.Subject = oMsgDetails.Subject;
> oMsg.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;
> oMsg.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;
> oMsg.To = emailAddress;
> oMsg.Body = oMsgDetails.Content;
> SmtpMail.SmtpServer = mailServer;
> SmtpMail.Send(oMsg);
> </pre>
>
> appreciate any help
> Thanks
>