Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!glasgow!Andrew.Findlay From: Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers Subject: Re: Reply-To Message-ID: <1510.8812011646@Suleika.me.brunel.ac.uk> Date: 1 Dec 88 15:46:00 GMT Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: Message from "Richard Hopkins" of Dec 1, 88 at 4:19 pm X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5b-hd] X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3 | 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------