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>I'm afraid I don't understand the question.
You're not alone.
> One thing I can say is that
>MAIL-11 + VMSMAIL is not an RFC822 mail system, it's a VMS/DECNET mail
>system. It does not have a *concept* of 'Sender:' or 'Reply-To:' or the
>like, it knows about the person who sent the message, period. Given a
>message with 'From:', 'Sender:' and 'Reply-To:' pointing to 3 different
>addresses, which one should you select as the origin (and recipient of
>any reply to the message)?
The two MTA -> VMSMAIL (MUA) situations I'm familiar with are vanilla JNET
and JNET with PMDF. JNET just uses the 822-From: to create the VMSMAIL-From:.
PMDF uses Reply-To:/From:/Sender: in that order (if present).
I prefer the PMDF approach since it lets me "answer" to the right person.
Others prefer the JNET approach because they like to see originated the
message on a DIR of their mail.
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Mark J Strawcutter BitNet: MJSTRAW@IUP
Director, Systems and Data Communications DNS (mx): [log in to unmask]
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Phone: (412) 357-4000
Indiana, PA 15705 "you can't nail jello to a tree"
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