tomc@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Cunningham) (09/06/89)
Sorry if this has been covered before; I don't recall it since the inception of the group. I mail to a guy using the path oakhill!inmet!wait. However, mail to me is forwarded from oakhill to my workstation, so when I get mail from him his Return-Path: and From: (there is no Reply-To:) is motbos!inmet!wait, which is what Mush uses to construct a reply path. Oakhill talks to motbos, but I can't get on oakhill to reply directly. Is there any way that Mush can automatically modify the reply path? I've been using ~t and replacing the To: data with an alias, which seems to work. I assume an alias that looks like a mail path wouldn't work, since Mush would just take it as a mail path (maybe a bad assumption). I also looked at auto_route with a specific pathname, but I don't want to prepend oakhill to *all* replies (e.g. I reply to messages on our local net as well). Any tips appreciated. Also you can let me know if this is just a screwy setup we've got here :-). -- Tom Cunningham Motorola Inc. Austin TX {sun,cs.utexas.edu}!oakhill!tomc
schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (09/07/89)
In article <2374@bouwsma.oakhill.UUCP> tomc@oakhill (Tom Cunningham) writes: } } Is there any way that Mush can automatically modify the reply path? } I've been using ~t and replacing the To: data with an alias, which } seems to work. I assume an alias that looks like a mail path wouldn't } work, since Mush would just take it as a mail path (maybe a bad } assumption). An alias that looks like a mail path will work fine. I have a whole bunch of them to route all the different incarnations of Dan Heller to the same address: alias island!maui!argv@cad.Berkeley.EDU argv alias island!argv@Sun.COM argv alias turnpike!argv@Sun.COM argv alias argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM argv alias dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU argv where of course "argv" is also aliased to whatever his preferred address is at the moment. If his preferred address happens to be the same as one of the aliases, I comment out that one when I set the "argv" alias. To test that the alias is working, find a message that is from the person to whom you want replies re-addressed, set the current message to that one (by using the "from" command or curses-mode motions) and give the command eval -h expand %a This will show you how the author's address will be rewritten. -- Bart Schaefer "And if you believe that, you'll believe anything." -- DangerMouse CSNET / Internet schaefer@cse.ogc.edu UUCP ...{sequent,tektronix,verdix}!ogccse!schaefer