Re: Changing Return-Path on CDO sent mails

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From: Tom Kaminski [MVP] ((A_at_T))
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:20:58 -0400

"Kurgan@community.nospam"
<Kurgan@community.nospam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A6DA952B-957A-4BFA-80EC-59F4051EE8C5@microsoft.com...
> Hi everybody:
>
> I need to change the 'return-path' header of the e-mails I send using CDO
in Windows 2000/2003.
> I've tried to change the urn:schemas:mailheader:return-path in the mail
header, but it doesn't work at all.
>
> I think return-path is changed by the receiving MTA when the sending MTA
connects to it for authenticate, but as long as I'm using the local SMTP
server included with IIS I don't know how to indicate that...
>
> I tried to use a event sink in order to change this header before sending
but all was in vain. The return-path always shows the same e-mail address as
the 'From' field, which is exactly what I don't want.
>
> I've search the newsgroup in vain, and also Google News.
> It seems that is not possible to acomplish this with CDO (I've found a lot
of pages showing how to do it in PHP :-(, will I have to change?)
>
> Any ideas in how to do this will be very appreciated.

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