datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (05/04/91)
External mail that I send has to go through a flaky and protean gateway, so my From: lines lately say "datri@concave.convex.com", and apparently there's a problem either with our gateway or with some nameservers out there. So, I'd like to add a Reply-to: header to my outgoing mail automagically, hopefully only when the mail is destined for an external site. Any ideas? I'd very much like to do this without hacking the sources. -- -- datri@convex.com
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (05/06/91)
You can use the init file mechanism to set up a new menu that adds a Reply-to header field before sending the mail. Something like this should do the trick: addmenu sendmessage-compound-operation "Send W/Reply-To" sendmessage sendmessage inherit "sendmessage-add-header Reply-to: nsb@bellcore.com; sendmessage-send-message" This belongs in your .messagesinit AND .sendmessageinit files, if you ever run the program under both the names "messages" and "sendmessage". What I do is I have both of those init files include another file called ".amsinit" that has all the lines I want to use in both.
wollman@SADYE.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman) (05/06/91)
Is there any document anywhere that documents the *full* syntax and semantics of the .fooinit files? I don't remember seeing any... [tho' my sources are foo-line right now] -GAWollman
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (05/06/91)
Try "help initfiles". I don't know if it is the FULL syntax, but it's a good starting point. -- Nathaniel