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In article <136556@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:

>> One thing that *is* a problem is trying to do a reply to all the
>> recepients of the message from a dumb uucp site.

>Mush's algorithms for constructing reply addresses consists of
>many heuristics including some of those you mention here.  It gets
>around the syntax differences (e.g., ! vs @) by converting all
>addresses to ! format first for consistency and then returning
>them (if necessary/desired/possible) to the original format the
>address was found in.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty much stuck with AT&T's PC mail UA's
(Access Plus and PMX-Starmail) unless I can find something
else that runs under DOS with background transfers and an
idiot-simple interface with a built-in editor and binary file
attachments.

The To: and Cc: lines are pre-munged as they are moved to the
PMX IN folders by reversing the From_ line and deleting duplications.
However, it doesn't know anything about domain names or aliasing
so group replies tend to be routed back through the originating machine
even when that is obviously not necessary.  I guess rabid rerouting
by the MTA is the only way to fix things (no flames, please - I don't
advertise connections to anywhere else...).  The only other possibility
seems to be to have the delivering MTA pre-pre-mung the To: and Cc:
lines into the real hostnames so PMX will get it right, but I don't
really want the users to see that stuff.  Has anyone else solved this?

Les Mikesell
 les@chinet.chi.il.us