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Re: Reply-To problem

1996-10-18 11:43:23

[Watch your line length.  300+ characters is little large...]

Clay Willmon <cwillmon(_at_)rccden(_dot_)com> writes:

Below is a example of a recipe where I am sending a message to a different ema
il address based upon the size.  This works fine except for one problem.  When 
I reply to email sent to myaddress(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)net, the reply is to 
myself not th
e person who actually sent the email.  Can you suggest a place on the net I mig
ht go for examples, or can you provide a solution.

Since procmail's forwarding should only change the envelope, not the
headers, this sounds like a bug in the program you use to read mail --
Mail User Agents should never use the envelope sender (as seen in the
"From " or Return-Path: headers) when replying.  What mail program do
you use?

As a test, I'm sending this message only to the list.  (Normally I
would cc: the list and send directly to you.)  If you try to reply to
it, does default to sending your message to:

        procmail-request(_at_)Informatik(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE

If so, your MUA is broken.

Philip Guenther

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