On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:41:43 -0500, Andrew Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>To: field
>Is there a way to have the to: field but anything other than the list
>address?  Specifically, is there a way to have the to: field be the person's
>email address?

There are 2 ways to do this.  One is to use the obsolete setting FULL822.  This
will impose an extreme performance penalty on the machine of approx 75% for
lists of any reasonable size (50,000+).

The better way (much less performance penalty) is to use LISTSERV 1.8d and LSMTP
1.1b in a mail-merge application.

Both methods will be slower than regular BMSTP mail that LISTSERV normally uses.

>From: field
>Can the list be setup to display a certain address in the from field for
>every email that is sent to list members?

No.  Internet mail standards require that the From: address be the original
author of the message.  If you want it to say [log in to unmask] then you must
use a POP mailer program setup to mail from that account (which must exist).
LISTSERV provides no way to change this.

>Display Name Property:
>Certain email clients (outlook for ex) have a display name that shows up for
>"from" as opposed to the actual email address that it is from.  Is there a
>way to configure either LISTSERV or LSMTP to set this value - can't find
>this in the docs.

This is a feature controlled differently by each user's email program.  LISTSERV
has no way at all to influence this.  It might be influenced by how your
configure your sending mail program, since LISTSERV merely passes along the
headers unchanged.