Conference lassie::ucx

5467.0. "Looking for way to customize "REPLY TO:"" by CSC32::R_WILLIAMS () Thu Apr 24 1997 22:15

    Hi,
    
    I have a customer who would like to customize the "reply to:" field
    when sending SMTP mail.  I'm thinking that this is not possible with
    our current UCX implementation and I will need to generate an
    enhancement request.
    
    Regards,
    
    -Rick
    

It is a standard switch on unix system to be able to set the "reply to"
address on a user by user basis for smtp mail.  The substitute domain
switch in config will not work for this except in special situation.  Namely
in a large domain, xyz.com, with lots of subdomains, the main mail server
routes all mail to xyz.com to the correct node in the domain.  I set the
substitute domain on my machine to xyz.com so that my return address says
[email protected] and that's OK except that... smtp on my machine thinks that
it is xyz.com now and when I send to other people in the domain on different
nodes, [email protected], my smtp server thinks that it is xyz.com because that's
how I set the substitute domain.  So instead of asking the mail router,
or forwarding the mail to the mail router for proper delivery, my smtp server
give the error message that there is no user name
"other" on this system which it thinks is xyz.com.

Does that make sense?   And then there is the problem that other people on
a system may not want to have the same return address as I do.  Remember the
unix world and now the PC world is full of people who log onto many different
machines on the course of the day and it is useful to have all replys to one
node.

I think a logical that the user can define, something like,
DEFINE UCX$SMTP_REPLY_TO "[email protected]"
would be nice.

thanks,