Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!syd From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Annoyiny Reply Problem Keywords: Reply, Problem, Sun, NFS Message-ID: <1990Oct10.162947.2591@DSI.COM> Date: 10 Oct 90 16:29:47 GMT References: Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 20 boerio@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio) writes: >If someone can tell me what has changed, and why Elm is now doing this, I >would appreciate it immensely. Elm is not resolving the outbound address, but fully qualifying the reply. The reply came in as user@b and elm is sending it out that way. Why: to avoid a potential conflict between a local alias and a remote user name. All replies are qualified the way the came in, ie the From: and Reply-To: or From_ address is used. Even local users on the same machine are thusly qualified to avoid this conflict. Until Elm gets rewritten to support a flag stating that an address has already been aliases or no longer needs aliasing or some such, for every address Elm handles, this is the workaround. (and don't expect such a rewrite any time soon) -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235