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From: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Helpful hint when using ELM on non-internet systems
Summary: won't always work (what does?)
Message-ID: <1617@attdso.att.com>
Date: 2 May 89 14:33:13 GMT
References: <5168@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
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Reply-To: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
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In article <5168@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
|A user writes:
|> More specifically, all my outgoing mail goes to dalcs!user@node.domain,
|> but I would like my return address to be bill@biomel.uucp . . .
|
|I had the same problem on one of our internal systems that does not "do"
|INTERNET.  What I did was use the Reply-To header to specify my internet
|address.  And instead of entering it each time on the headers editing
|screen, I simply put it in my .elm/elmheaders file.  Any respectable
|mailer will give priority to a Reply-To: header over a From: header.
|(Well, at least ELM does!) This means other people that reply to your
|messages will reply using the internet address given in the Reply-To:
|and not the faulty one in the From: header.  Anyone using a dumb mailer
|will also be able to reply, because a dumb mailer will ignore the
|headers and simply work out the return path from the "From " (no colon)
|lines 

Well, sometimes.  A problem exists on System V R3 with mailx, however.  Mailx
is semi-smart, and tries to respectably use the Reply-To line.  Unfortunately
it will then choke on Internet addresses unless the site is running smail.

I understand that this will be fixed in Release 4, but for the moment I've
got the internet address in my .sig_remote file, which ELM will happily tack on
the end of my outgoing email.  People who know what it is can use it, those
that don't won't care.

	tim
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