> >It does mean that the LAN mail system's reply function will not work > >properly. However, it seems like the users of the mail system that is > >deficient in functionality should pay the price, rather than others out > >there on the Internet. > > That is not my experience. I've generally found that systems like this, > and in particular plain VMSmail, put the Reply-To: address in the "from" > field. The rationale is simple: "our" users (ie my boss and all the top > execs) should get the service they expect, because they'll demand it and > end up making proposals we can't refuse. Too bad for the Internet, that's > the price they pay for not running cc:Mail, and the Internet is a mess > anyway! :-) We have the Microsoft Mail SMTP gateway. It puts the SMTP MAIL FROM in the MS Mail From address. I don't believe there is a choice, but that's the way we would configure it anyway. The 3+Mail gateway that we developed here does the same thing. (Yes, we still have 3+Mail. Sigh.) With VMS Mail doesn't it depend on the product that is gatewaying Internet mail into VMS Mail? I don't know PMDF, but I would be surprised if it didn't at least give you a choice. We have DEC's DECnet-Internet gateway. I don't know what it does though, besides letting VMS Mail addresses leak out onto the Internet. I never see it from the VMS Mail side.