On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 08:06:50 -0400, Fred Karp <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I have had a request to arrange for the sender to appear to be the list, >since people's email addresses often don't contain that person's name. According to RFC822, the From: line should reflect the Author of the message. Remember that LISTSERV is an agent program that merely facilitates the redistribution of an author's message to a list of subscribers. As such, LISTSERV (or the list of subscribers symbolized by LISTNAME@server_name address) can never itself be the author of such a message since LISTSERV is always an Agent functioning on-behalf-of the true message Author. Accordingly LISTSERV is forbidden from modifing the From: line in any email message to a list. There is no way to make it do so. Also, in accordance with RFC822, LISTSERV normally does identify itself as an agent program by adding a Sender: line to the message headers. This Sender: header (not to be confused with the From: address) is correctly used to identify any agent (person or program) who is acting on behalf of the message Author in distributing the message. You can set the value for the Sender: header line in your list header. Finally, remember that the To: address of a list message already reflects the LISTNAME@server_name address. If, as you suggest, the From: line were allowed to be modified in this way as well, both the To: and the From: would be identical. Aside from appearing like some kinds of spam email, and risking being blocked on that basis, such an address format would be a gross invitation to mail loops and other kinds of mailing errors and problems, resulting in significant amounts of non-delivery of the emails sent out. For all of these reasons, it is neither possible nor desirable to do what you are requesting.