[FAQ 911013] What is the difference between my From Address and the Return Path?
When setting up the “Mailing Info” tab in the Setup Dialog Box you need to supply the “From Name” which should either be your personally name so the receiver can see the email is from you or it could be your company name again for the purpose of letting the receiver recognize that this is not a SPAM email.

The setup is also asking for the “From Email Address” and the “Return Email Address”.

The “From Email Address” is the email address that will get the notice about bad email addresses or email addresses that is no longer valid.  In general those email notifications are sent to you from your Email / ISP provider.  It is suggested that this email address is the same as the one that you will let the world use for automatically subscribing to your mailing or un-subscribing from your mailing.  The “From Email Address” should in most case be the email address that is used in the “POP3” configuration tab, so eBlast can monitor and updates its Address Database.

The “Return Email Address” is the email address that you want people to email you on when the receiver hits the reply button.  This email address can either be your “real” email address so you and not eBlast will be picking up this email.

To ensure that you are not loosing any emails you can enable the “Forward Bounced Emails” on the “Bounced Info” tab.  This will forward the emails that are returned or sent to the email address used on the “POP3” tab to your “real” email address which you need to supply in the “To Email Address” on the “Bounced Info” tab.  Since eBlast is dealing with emails that are marked as “faultier”, “On-eBlast-List” or “Off-eBlast-List” you can check off the “Skip Encoded Emails” and eBlast will not forward those emails to your “real” email address.