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From: Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay)
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Subject: Re: Reply-To
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Date: 1 Dec 88 15:46:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Message from "Richard Hopkins" of Dec 1, 88 at 4:19 pm
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| Thanks for the responses - seems that there is no easy solution to
| our problem, although I like the sound of the IDA enhancements.

A new version was recently published on comp.sources.unix - in the UKC
archive if not still in your own News system.

| As you'll see from the header of this note, however, I have
| managed to generate the appropriate Reply-To field, but it 
| necessitated changing the sendmail code (which I am very loathe
| to do). It was strightforward enough; follow the example of setting
| up FullName in main.c and envelope.c, defining an appropriate
| sendmail macro (I chose $R) and user environment variable (REPLYTO
| in my case).

I am sure it is WRONG to have Sendmail do things like that!
Sendmail is a Message Transport Agent. Specifying a *preference* for
where you want replies to go is surely a User Agent's business.

If you must modify something to do this, change Mail. Elm already
allows it.

| There is still the problem of replying to reply-to fields, however!
| We have Replyall set in /usr/lib/Mail.rc which means that "reply"
| doesn't reply to the Reply-To field, while "Reply" does!! If Replyall
| isn't set, then the problem is "inverted". Aaarrghh!!

Use elm!

Andrew

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