I am using a cgiemail form and keep getting users that appear to be from he.net but when I respond the mail bounces. What is wrong?
Actually what is happening is cgiemail uses a facility called sendmail. Sendmail automatically appends @he.net to the From: line of your message in the absence of a domain name at the end of the from address. People frequently just enter a user name, or worse, garbage. Further another source of this problem is the use of the comma (“,”) character. Commas are separators for Internet email addresses but are part of the numbered account names used natively on CompuServe. Knowledgeable CompuServe users know to convert the comma to a period (“.”) when using Internet email, but every now and then you get somebody that enters (for example): 7281,28817@compuserve.com This is parsed into 7281@he.net and 28817@compuserve.com. Depending on the context the second address (“28817@compuserve.com”) will be discarded. Add another line to your response for labeled “Email:” and add the same field name as what you use for the From: line so that you will get a copy of the original email address unedited b
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