Re: Checking `Reply-To'

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

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>>>>> "SD" == Sten Drescher <sten.drescher@tivoli.tivoli.com> writes:

SD> 	No, From is the identity of the person(s) who wished the
SD> message to be sent.  My 'identity' as stend@sten.org has quite
SD> different associations than my 'identity' as sten.drescher@tivoli.com,
SD> so the From header should include the 'identity' I am operating as.

If my boss wants me to write up something and send it out, he is not the
originator, I am.  If my boss writes up something that he wants me to send
out, he is the originator and I am the Sender.  Desire has nothing to do
with what goes in the From header; who writes the message determines that.

If you are originating at tivoli.com then your 'identity' is sten.drescher
and your mailbox is sten.drescher@tivoli.com; if you are originating at
sten.org then your 'identity' is sten and your mailbox is stend@sten.org.
Yes, they are two different mailboxes associated with two different
'identities'.  This is one of the reasons for the Reply-To header.  If you
want to send mail from tivoli.com but want replies to go to your sten.org
mailbox, you should have 'sten.drescher@tivoli.com' in your From header and
'stend@sten.org' in your Reply-To header.

That is the easiest way to do it.  Alternately, an equally correct setup
would be to put 'stend@sten.org' in the From header and
'sten.drescher@tivoli.com' in the Sender header, with the former identity
being the originator and the later identity being the one responsible for
submitting it to the network.  However, this may not work if your site's
mail hub is in the habit of rewriting outgoing headers.  It can also break
with some MUAs (Mickey$oft Mail) that honor Sender over From.

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