regarding the reply address on the list....

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Fri Feb 4 11:17:54 2000

> In compliance with RFC 822. About the only thing that can legitimately
> override that is a "Reply-to:". I wonder why no-one has thought of simply
> swapping the "Sender:" and "From:" headers?


Ah, that would be true for most mailers... the one I use at home is a bit
mroe creative. It's really a script that runs and interacts with unix
mail and effectively collects mail by extracting it (header and all) and
sending it via zmodem to the local system. Now the local software
collects all this and creats an index plus an inbox. So, when I reply
it parses the TEXT that has an attaced header and looks for the FROM:
and uses that as the address. I can completely override that. Replied
mails are effectively from my system not replied but new messages
containing the old mail. It's flexible to the limits of the script
portion but the rest of it is black box borland code. The author never
released it even though it's shareware and he lives about 15miles away.

Allison
Received on Fri Feb 04 2000 - 11:17:54 GMT