NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/vmsnet/mail/mx/899

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From: Richard Ault <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Setting host names for Sender and Return path
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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:05:08 EDT
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Is there any way to get MX 3.1c to set Return Path and Sender host names to
something other than the local host FQDN?  I have set MX_VMSMAIL_REPLY and the
like so that my From and Reply to headers refer to me as @queens.edu, but the
Return Path and Sender still use @host.queens.edu.

I want to be able to get certain recalcitrant listserv's (info-vax and
lanworks, to name two) to send to me @queens.edu.  My local host name is not
going to be stable in the next few months, but @queens.edu will always be valid
(at least as long as I'm here, since it's my baliwick).  We're a relatively new
Internet site and I'd like to get some way of doing subscriptions that won't
use local host names before turning our users loose and having to re-subscribe
the world when we change host names.  Note that we don't have a local DNS so I
can't diddle DNS settings at will.

Thanks
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Richard H. Ault, Computing Services Center      [e-mail]
Queens College, 1900 Selwyn Ave                 [e-mail]
Charlotte, NC 28274-0001                        [phone]