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- From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Alias Mailing List Question
- Message-ID: <8592@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:05:34 GMT
- Sender: news@SEAS.UCLA.EDU
- Organization: Republicans for Sanity
- Lines: 35
-
- I am administrating an alias mail exploader list. However there are
- two problems with the list, neither is a show stopper but they are
- damn annoying:
- 1.If you send a letter to the exploader address, the
- computer just goes through the alias file and sends the
- letter out to everyone on the list. In 10 out of 10 cases,
- the person sending the letter is on the list. So if you send
- a letter, you end up getting a copy back.
-
- 2.When you get a letter from the list, the 'from:' line will
- have the address of the person who originally sent in the
- letter instead of the address of the e-mail address of the
- list. So everytime you wish to respond to a letter you got
- off the list, you have to delete the 'to' line on your
- response and replace it with the list address.
-
- Are there non radical solutions to these problems? Preferably some
- program that will examine the 'from' line on the letter sent to it
- and not send back an echo if the person is on the alias list and
- will also format the letters it does send out so that when you reply
- it will reply to the list instead of whoever originally sent the
- letter.
-
- I will try to read this group but the post volume is
- ENORMOUS, e-mail responses are prefered, I will post a
- summary of the results (always trying to do my part to keep
- down band width munching).
-
- Thanks,
- The Jester
- --
- RSA proved you could patent math, whats next? Fire?
- "Sorry, you can't rub those two stones together!
- First is a Patented Process"
- -The Jester
-