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DSL_MTLCA
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 Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:45 am Post subject: qmail reply-to field |
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Is there a way to set up (in the .qmail file) an account to change the reply-to field of the e-mail? I have an account set up basically as a mailing list, but when somebody send to it, it forwards to 3 e-mail addresses, if somebody click reply, i want it to go back to this account so everybody gets it again...
I've scowered google and these forums and haven't been able to find a thing. The only thing I found that MIGHT work is running it through a filter, although I don't know enough about raw e-mails to write anything to filter this in. Plus, the server I'm running it on doesn't have python 
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cselkirk
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Firstly you don't need to create an account to host a mailing list, simply create an .qmail-alias under /var/qmail/alias with the recipients email addresses in that file and any mail sent to that address will go the addresses suplied. The same is true for users without an account on the machine in question, if you create an alias (lets say webmaster), with "me@domain.tld" in that file, all mail to "webmaster@localdomain.tld" will be forwarded to "me@domain.tld" eg:
| Code: | echo "me@domain.tld" >> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-webmaster
chown alias:qmail /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-webmaster
echo to: webmaster | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject |
You should now have a mail from "user@localdomain.tld" in your mailbox at "me@domain.tld"
That said it doesn't give you much in terms of management, for that you should install ezmlm (net-mail/ezmlm). Infact this would be advisable as then your subscribers would have the ability to unsubscribe, request archived mail, etc. Plus ezmlm will manage bounces (do do this with the above example you would need to create a .qmail-listname-owner so that bounces don't end up going to the original poster).
As far as your question re altering the reply-to, some email clients don't repect "reply-to", or at least "from:" is given precidence when a user hits "reply", so I'm not sure you should follow that route.
Even if you only have very few subscribers a mailing list manager is the way to go.
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