> How do I change the domain name in the reply-to field of outgoing
> mail? I am using the elm mail program, in case that is relevant.
> [snip...]
One suggested answer for Pine was:
> > >
> > > goto SETUP
> > > select CONFIG
> > > change user-domain to cebaf.gov
> > >
> > > And everything works perfectly.
What I did was to notice the existence of a Reply-To: header option in
pine and enable it in the "rich header" options, with <me>@jlab.org in the
field.
In setup config, I set the option by the line
customized-hdrs = Reply-to: tiefen@jlab.org
wayyyyy down near the bottom of the options list.
This also works, but perhaps only for mailers sufficiently sophisticated
that they respect the Reply-To: line, or at least offer the remote user
the information that it exists. Pine does this, and I found out about the
Reply-To: line because of offsite users including it in mail to which I
replied. Pine dutifully asked me whether it should use that address
instead of the From: line. All seems to work well here, too. Site
internal addressees will then have the option of replying directly to my
office machine without passing through the main mailservers, although I
suspect the load reduction to them is inconsequential.
I hope this is at least amusing, and perhaps even helpful....I sent mail
to an offsite correspondent the morning of the internet shutoff, and he
went for most of a month thinking my email address was invalid (which it
was for offsite sources by the time he tried to reply to it). I had set
this Reply-To: thing up by the Friday after internet reconnection, but
that was too late to help this particular problem.
Simply changing the user-domain as above is probably more robust.
Michael Tiefenback