NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/sgi/12997

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From: [e-mail] (Eliot Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Elm mailer return path
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Date: 28 Aug 92 00:36:10 GMT
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[e-mail] writes:

>    This is a question about the the Elm mailer program.  Is there a way to
>specify your return path as something other than what it really is?  The
>address of my local machine is joffe@gts01, but in order for it to get to me
>from a remote site it has to go through a machine called gts.elan.af.mil. My
>address would therefore have to be specified as joffe@[e-mail].

I'm not an ELM expert, but I do a lot of things with mail at SGI.
Even if you pass mail through another site, it should not cause your
mail to have two at-signs in it.  On the Internet, there are a number
of ways that mail can be transformed.  Through the use of MX records,
your address doesn't need to be changed at all (with the possible
exception that it may need to be fully qualified).  Rather, the other
side, when sending, will look up your MX record and discover that they
have to send your mail to gts.elan.af.mil.  This may require some
coordination with the administrator of gts.elan.af.mil if they do not
already have direct connectivity to you through TCP-IP (it sounds like
they do).

Let me point one other thing.  What you want to set is your `reply-to'
header.  This tells people where to reply to you.  Without an MX
record, you might try something like [e-mail].  A
% is an unofficial/unsupported way to route around the Internet.  It's
best to use MX records.  Again, I don't know how to do this in ELM.

See Chapter 3 of the IRIX Network Administration Guide for more
information about MX records.
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Eliot Lear
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