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Re: Smail3 and mailing lists

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From: Ronald S. Karr
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:36
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In article <1992Dec09.131305.8099@sojurn.lns.pa.us> mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us (Mike J. Sangrey) writes:
>What I want to do is to allow the people who recieve mail from this
>list to simply hit the ``r'' key (reply)  and have the response go
>back to the mailing list and not the originating author.  I believe
>this means that the smail thats managing the mailing list needs to
>change the Reply-to: header.  How can I do that easily?  I'd rather
>not have separate transport entries for each mailing list.

The current method for doing this, hacky as it is, is to modify your
mailing list to call out to a program that reinvokes smail with a
modified sender address.  The directory contrib/striphdrs contains
information for how to do this.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!veritas!tron
From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Smail3 and mailing lists
Message-ID: <1992Dec16.123616.24834@Veritas.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 92 12:36:16 GMT
References: <1992Dec09.131305.8099@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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