Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: getting contents of header lines into rewrite rules
Message-ID: <15355@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 12 Apr 90 03:50:49 GMT
References: <33187@andante.UUCP> <8a8oPE70BwwO5NsW5s@transarc.com> <5447@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <5447@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM> billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM (Bill Randle) writes:
> I have a unregistered uucp neighbor who's only connectivity is via uucp
> to me. His sendmail generates a From line like: "user@remote.uucp".
> Since remote is not registered, though, it seemed like the thing to do
> was add a "Reply-to:" header that would route replies via me, e.g.:
> "Reply-to: user%remote.uucp@me.some.domain".  In theory this seemed like
> it would work, but sendmail rewrites this header line ...

How about creating an alias for this guy on your own machine, and making
the Reply-To: header mention your alias instead of his address.



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