Reply-to discussion - yet again (Was Re: [H-GEN] Open source firm releases..)

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Harry Phillips wrote:

> Really, which MTA's require the ~/.forward file? I know that postfix
> doesn't require it.

Sendmail usually requires one to achieve what we want.  Sendmail was the
MTA which originally invented the idea of a .forward.  The situation in
which sendmail does not require a .forward to achieve our target is if
procmail is being used as the local delivery agent (LDA).  It's all about
finding some way to get your MTA to use procmail to look at the rules.

I'd need to check on exim & qmail but I believe that exim would act in a
similar manner to sendmail in this regard.

> PS. This is also a test for Roberts procmail rule that adds a Reply-to:

And I replied to this using it :)

> :0
> * ^TO_.*chat

Have you considered using X-BeenThere to match the list?  This gives the
lowest probability of a mis-match, say if you join another list in the
future which

Cheers,
	Rob

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