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6.2.57 UucpName

Syntax:

UucpReplyTo email@address

Example:

UucpReplyTo user@some.domain.com (Joe Sysop)

The Internet e-mail standards specified so-called ‘Reply-To:’ header lines. The presence of such a header line speicifes that any reply to this message should not be sent to the sender of the mail, but to the alternate e-mail account that is specified in the ‘Reply-To:’ header.

A common scenario is the following: You have two e-mail accounts, one at home and one at your university or at your office. You have set up the account at your university to send copies of all incoming messages to your account at home. Then you want, of course, that all replies to any e-mail you write are directed at your university account, because you can read any mail that arrives at the university both at the university or at home, while an e-mail that you receive at home won’t be visible at the university. Therefore, if you are writing an e-mail from your home account, you want to insert a ‘Reply-To:’ header line that points at your university account.

If you sepcify the ‘UucpReplyTo’ configuration keyword, Msged will insert such header lines whenever a netmail is created that is addressed to your UUCP gateway. The e-mail address that you specify as arugment to the ‘UucpReplyTo’ keyword may also include realname configuration in parentheses, like shown in the example above. The header line that is created by the example above would look like

Reply-To: user@some.domain.com (Joe Sysop)

Please note that of course the whole thing can only work if your gateway software can recognise Reply-To: headers in fido netmail. As always, Fidogate can, while others probably can’t.


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