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- From: sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
- Subject: Re: I need to add an "Originally-From:" header to my mailing list posts.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.143012.26550@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Summary: Try From: & Sender:
- Keywords: rfc822, From, Sender, Reply-To, Resent-From
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <18ge7eINN6r9@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:30:12 GMT
- Lines: 80
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- In article <18ge7eINN6r9@agate.berkeley.edu> bbehlen@soda.berkeley.edu (Vitamin B (Brian Behlendorf)) writes:
- > Apologies in advance for the newbie question, but the sendmail man
- >page was not helpful about this. I run a mailing list out of this machine
- >called sfraves, with about 215 users. Right now the "From:" line reads
- >"sfraves-request", so that only I will have to deal with MAILER DAEMON
- >problems and not the original writer of whatever gets posted to the list.
- >On most machines, the name and address of the original writer does stay in
- >the header, so people can tell who wrote a particular post. However, some
- >mail programs seem to strip away that second "From:" line, so that every
- >piece of mail seems to come from "sfraves-request", and the real writer's
- >name is unknown. So, I would like to add an "Originator:" or "Originally
- >From:" line to every post that goes through the sfraves alias, so that
- >those people with the messed-up mail programs can still see who the original
- >writer is, with bounced messages still going to sfraves-request.
- >
-
- From: originator@some.where
- Resent-From: sfraves-request@other.place
-
- Might possibly work, but RFC-822 specifically bypasses the precedence issue:
-
- Use of such precedence information depends upon partici-
- pants' communication needs. For example, this standard does not
- dictate when a "Resent-From:" address should receive replies, in
- lieu of sending them to the "From:" address.
-
-
- Another possible format is:
-
- From: originator@some.where
- Sender: sfraves-request@other.place
- Reply-To: sfraves@other.place
-
- This would probably work in the manner you want ( Again, quote from rfc822 ):
-
- 4.4.4. AUTOMATIC USE OF FROM / SENDER / REPLY-TO
-
- For systems which automatically generate address lists for
- replies to messages, the following recommendations are made:
-
- o The "Sender" field mailbox should be sent notices of
- any problems in transport or delivery of the original
- messages. If there is no "Sender" field, then the
- "From" field mailbox should be used.
-
- o The "Sender" field mailbox should NEVER be used
- automatically, in a recipient's reply message.
-
- o If the "Reply-To" field exists, then the reply should
- go to the addresses indicated in that field and not to
- the address(es) indicated in the "From" field.
-
- o If there is a "From" field, but no "Reply-To" field,
- the reply should be sent to the address(es) indicated
- in the "From" field.
-
- Sometimes, a recipient may actually wish to communicate with
- the person that initiated the message transfer. In such
- cases, it is reasonable to use the "Sender" address.
-
- This recommendation is intended only for automated use of
- originator-fields and is not intended to suggest that replies
- may not also be sent to other recipients of messages. It is
- up to the respective mail-handling programs to decide what
- additional facilities will be provided.
-
-
-
-
- -Ref: RFC # 822 (Obsoletes: RFC #733)
- STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
- August 13, 1982, Revised by David H. Crocker
-
-
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