phpmailer - is it possible to have replies to one address, bouncebacks to another?

[Dave Smithz]

Hi There,

I have developed a php application for a client that uses the excellent
class.phpmailer.php.

However, the client has requested that when they get back bounce back emails
from people in their database who no longer have the same address. They want
these emails to bounce back to a different address?

Is it possible to set this up and if so how would I do it?

E.g.

A bulk email is sent out to many people.
If email bounce backs are received, they are sent to a particicular email
address.
If the people reply to the email, this is sent to another email address.

Is the above possible and if so how?

Kind regards

Dave

[Gordon Burditt]

>I have developed a php application for a client that uses the excellent

class.phpmailer.php.

However, the client has requested that when they get back bounce back emails
from people in their database who no longer have the same address. They want
these emails to bounce back to a different address?

Is it possible to set this up and if so how would I do it?

Some mail transports honor the "Errors-To:" header for bounces.
Many mail clients honor the "Reply-To:" header for responses, and
for those that don't, you could put the same address in the From:
header if the transport you are sending mail through lets you
fake addresses in this way.

This may not work 100%. Note that it's not just *YOUR* mail transport
that needs to honor "Errors-To:", it's all of them that your
badly-addressed mail might go through.

Gordon L. Burditt

[Dave Smithz]

"Gordon Burditt" <go****@hammy.burditt.org> wrote in message
news:11*************@corp.supernews.com...

Some mail transports honor the "Errors-To:" header for bounces.
Many mail clients honor the "Reply-To:" header for responses, and
for those that don't, you could put the same address in the From:
header if the transport you are sending mail through lets you
fake addresses in this way.

This may not work 100%. Note that it's not just *YOUR* mail transport
that needs to honor "Errors-To:", it's all of them that your
badly-addressed mail might go through.

So it sounds like the "Errors-to" is not something I can rely on (Also the
php mailer class does not seem to support this). In which case this leaves
me thinking the following.

I could make the "from" email address be the one where I would want the
technical problem (e.g. no email address) bounce backs. And then set the
"reply-To" to be the address which receivers of the email would reply to if
they were sending an email back.
I think this would work but would leave the email address as if it was
received from the email address set to receive bounce backs (could cause
confusion with customers).

Is there any other way of getting around this or is my above mentioned
method the best?

Kind regards

Dave