boerio@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio) (10/10/90)
I am running Elm 2.3 PL6 on a Sun4 system. The way our mail is handled
here is that everyone has a home account (since they can have multiple
accounts), and their mail is directed there. So, if my home account is
on host A, someone on host B can simply send mail to 'boerio', and it will
get routed to 'boerio@A' without that user having to worry about it.
Up until the time I installed Elm in a system directory (it has been
running off my home directory), whenever I would Reply to a message from
'user@B' (remember, I am on A), Elm would set the return address to be
'user' as expected. Now, if I have received mail from 'user@B', and I
Reply to it, Elm forms the outbound address to be 'user@B'.
This is distressing because it should not happen. As one of my Configure
options, I told Elm NOT to resolve outbound addresses.
If someone can tell me what has changed, and why Elm is now doing this, I
would appreciate it immensely.
- Jeff
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Jeff Boerio (boerio@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu)
Purdue University ECN Software Support Programmer
"Don't ask me, I'm just improvising" - Neil Peart, Rush
"There's someone in my head, but it's not me." - Pink Floydsyd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (10/10/90)
boerio@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio) writes: >If someone can tell me what has changed, and why Elm is now doing this, I >would appreciate it immensely. Elm is not resolving the outbound address, but fully qualifying the reply. The reply came in as user@b and elm is sending it out that way. Why: to avoid a potential conflict between a local alias and a remote user name. All replies are qualified the way the came in, ie the From: and Reply-To: or From_ address is used. Even local users on the same machine are thusly qualified to avoid this conflict. Until Elm gets rewritten to support a flag stating that an address has already been aliases or no longer needs aliasing or some such, for every address Elm handles, this is the workaround. (and don't expect such a rewrite any time soon) -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235