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Subject: Re: config question
From: jwesley @ cmaontheweb . com
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:27:21 -0500
To: Chip Old <fold @ bcpl . net>
Cc: MAJORDOMO-USERS <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>

 I know what you might be thinking, I am trying to Spam with my list 
servers, well not really
The list is people that have asked to be on the list.  For updates on 
events etc.
I am not going to try to Spam the world, I hate those things. The only 
reason I want to make it appear someone else sent it is because we didn't 
want them to see out email address and respond directly to the post , but 
for them to respond to a specific mail box someone else manages.  yes we 
set the reply_to setting and all that. so I guess this is as far as we can 
go on it..
Is there something better that I should be using? 
Thanks
For all your help.
Jeremy Wesley
Web Designer-Flasher-ASP
MCP I, MCSE I, MCDBA
Cherbonnier Mayer & Associates
Office 225.927.9200 X334
Pager  225.660.8778
www.cmaontheweb.com




Chip Old <fold@bcpl.net>
Sent by: majordomo-users-owner@GreatCircle.COM
08/21/2001 08:37 AM

 
        To:     MAJORDOMO-USERS <majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM>
        cc: 
        Subject:        Re: config question


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.

-- 
Chip Old (Francis E. Old)             E-Mail:  fold@bcpl.net
Manager, BCPL Network Services        Phone:   410-887-6180
Manager, BCPL.NET Internet Services   FAX:     410-887-2091
320 York Road
Towson, MD 21204  USA








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