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Re: applix mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Mon Oct 21 18:44:07 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:22:06 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199610191726.MAA01147@bearwood.holli.com> from "Kelly Stephens" at Oct 19, 96 12:26:47 pm
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Kelly Stephens wrote:
>
> Todd,
>
> Outgoing mail is independent of POP, so you can use your favorite mail
> transport program: sendmail, smail, etc. The trick is configuring
> sendmail or whatever, so that when the recipient receives your email
> he will have a valid reply address, i.e. you POP address. The easiest
> way is to add the 'Reply-To:' header to your mail message. You can do
> this manually or possibly your mail tool of choice can add this
> automatically. Another solution, is to hack the configuration of the
> transport program to recognize local senders and rewrite the reply
> address automagically. I have done the latter, but I'm sure my
> solution is not for the security conscious.
Reply-To, is probably not the best solution. Some mailers outright
ignore the Reply-To field.. and unfortunately, some is enough to
destroy a useful feature. :-/
And what hack is there with sendmail.cf? All I had to do is change
the 'DM' line to read:
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
DM cu-online.com
and all 'From' adresses get translated from
ohammers@ts1-123.cu-online.com to ohammers@cu-online.com. The only
tricky part is that the logins on your local machine must correspond
to the remote POP server's logins. Not difficult to achieve.. and you
can use aliases, if need be.
--
-Otto
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