On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 jwesley@cmaontheweb.com wrote:
> I have my list configured almost the way I want it. I used the following
> features
> reply_to =ben@cmaontheweb.com
> resend_host =cmaontheweb.com
> sender = ben
> But the emails I get still have the originator email address in it.
> here is what my mail client reads
> *******************************
> jwesley@cmaontheweb.com
> Sent by: ben@cmaontheweb.com
> 08/20/2001 05:34 PM
> Please respond to ben
> *****************************
> Can I remove "Please respond to ben" and jwesley@cmaontheweb?
According to the header from your message, your mail client is Lotus
Notes. The "Please respond to ben" is what Lotus Notes displays instead
of the "Reply-to: ben@cmaontheweb.com" people with normal mail clients
see. If you want to get rid of it, in list.config change "reply_to =
ben@cmaontheweb.com" to "reply_to =". The primary use of the "reply_to"
directive in list.config is to force replies to go to the whole list
instead of just to the original poster. If you don't need that feature,
then leave "reply_to" blank in list.config.
Messages sent to the list will always show the original poster's address
on the "From:" line (jwesley@cmaontheweb.com in this case). The directive
"sender = ben" in the list.config file doesn't change that behavior.
It's used by Resend for a "Sender:" header (which is not the same as
"From:") in the outgoing messages, and by Majordomo as the "From:"
address for the welcome message sent out in response to new subscriptions.
If I remember correctly, altering the "From:" address on a message to show
someone other than the original poster violates some RFC, so Majordomo
doesn't do it. If you want all your outgoing messages to show
"ben@cmaontheweb.com" on the "From:" line, you'll need to hack Resend.
IMHO it's a bad idea, because people reading messages on the list will
never know who wrote them.
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