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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: changing Reply-To: with MH?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 22:39:22 GMT
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Jeff Sullivan writes:
>Is there any way to change the value of a Reply-To: field in MH when
>the incoming messages are automatically forwarded to other users via
>slocal?

Not that I know of.  But I'll congratulate you on your use of Perl
though.  I love Perl.  In fact, with Perl and MH (slocal & send),
I'm completely automating a Play By e-Mail game.

Suggestions:

1. Have a sys-admin create a sendmail alias for your mailing list.
For example, my list is "zdiplomacy@eng.umd.edu".

In the /etc/aliases file is:
zdiplomacy:"|/usr/lib/sendmail -fzdiplomacy-request zdiplomacy-outgoing"
zdiplomacy-outgoing::include:/homes/elves/ziegast/Lists/zdiplomacy.people
owner-zdiplomacy-outgoing:owner-zdiplomacy
zdiplomacy-request:owner-zdiplomacy
owner-zdiplomacy:ziegast

The file zdiplomacy.people contains a list of mail addresses seperated by
returns.

A sample header might be:

	Return-Path: zdiplomacy-request@eng.umd.edu
	Received: (a bunch addresses and message info)
	From: Bill S. Preston esq. <flash@wam.umd.edu>
	Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 15:40:28 -0500
	Message-Id: <9102262040.AA00903@vs06cville.umd.edu>
	To: zdiplomacy@eng.umd.edu
	Subject: Verification

When someone replies, the header should be:

	To: Bill S. Preston esq. <flash@wam.umd.edu>
	cc: zdiplomacy@eng.umd.edu

which is just fine considering that Bill is in the list.  This is the
way that many mailing lists have been set up.


2. If you execute a Perl program from slocal, maybe you can clean things up
   by using "perl -p 'filter commands' | send"

Using this method, you'd have to strip out Received:, Date: and Return-Path:
headers, and then add a Reply-to: somewhere near the from.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Eric Ziegast
ziegast@eng.umd.edu

BTW: Don't send anything to zdiplomacy.  Refer to comp.games.pbm for more
info on Play By e-Mail Diplomacy.