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How to get Sendmail to make Reply-to header line?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James F Martin (Jim))
Wed Oct 30 13:58:22 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:56:19 -0500 (EST)
From: "James F Martin (Jim)" <martin0036@duq3.cc.duq.edu>
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Basically I want to reconfigure Sendmail so that mail is returned to me
on a different host (the Reply-to: header)
Defining Masquarading (DM in Sendmail.cf) does not work in my situation.
I have a ppp link to my University, and Sendmail will work (both ways)
when the link is up. They use dynamic addressing, but I seem to get the
same IP all the time anyway. But - I can't hog the phone line just to
wait for unexpected mail.
My mailbox is on a VMS host there, and I can telnet in and out to forward
mail to myself so that I can read it offline. It's that address that I
would like to use as a Reply-to: or From: address.
The University has discontinued Popmail for 'security reasons'
As near as I can tell - there was a GENERICFROM option in a previous
Sendmail+IDA which might also do what I want - but it doesn't seem to be
included in the current Sendmail*.rpm's (I have the -cf and doc rpm's)
The documentation and man pages seem to be virtually useless to my
situation, and I'm not willing to buy and read the huge Sendmail book
just to solve one problem.
I also tried adding a line in sendmail.cf for the reply header, and a line
towards the end of Ruleset 3 - to modify things there but of course I really
don't know what I'm doing.
I use RHCL 3.03 mostly upgraded to 4.0, with Linux kernel 2.0.21, and
Sendmail 8.7.6 release 4, ppp 2.2.0f, and m4 1.4. This note written with
Pine 3.91.
I figured out how to add the Reply-to header in PINE, but Sendmail strips
it out. I also tried customizing the From: line in PINE - but naturally
it won't let me.
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