Subject: Re: Forwarded mail triggers Reply-to-all

From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 20:04:50 +0100

On 3 Oct 1995, Jeffrey S Gostin wrote:

> 	I have two accounts here at Penn State. One forwards mail for me
> automagically to the other. However, the forwarding is transparent. When
> the mail gets to my primary account, the address the mail was forwarded FROM
> is listed as 'To:'. While perfectly logical, it fouls up Pine when I try to
> Reply...

Your automagic forward is incorrect.  It should ``Bounce'' mail and
not ``forward'' it.  How was that set up?  You may have to talk to
your local admins about that.

-jeff

Jeffrey Goldberg
    Email:	[email-masked]
    WWW:	<http://WWW.Cranfield.ac.uk/public/cc/cc047/>

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From: [email-masked] (Jeffrey S Gostin)
Date: 14 Oct 1995 20:27:47 GMT

>your local admins about that.

Perhaps I mistated the situation. To give more details:

	At Penn State, every registered student is given a POP account for
email, news etc. All of this information is tied into the PH database. If it
matters, system security and userid authentification is handled by Kerberos,
and the PH server is Qi Server version 2.2.

	I have my POP account set via 'make email' to gostin@crayola....,
instead of going to the normal POP server <60K users on a POPmail system gets
a little, shall we say... unreliable>. My POP account is listed as
[email-masked]. When mail comes in for psu.edu addresses <the POPmail
addresses>, a lookup is done to see where mail for that particular address'
mail is set to go to. In other words, [email-masked] is a 'front' account.

	In my case, instead of being forwarded to the POP server, my mail goes
to my UNIX account, where I can use PINE, and other such goodies. :-) But, the
TO header is not rewritten to account for the forwarding, bouncing,
hand-waving, or whatever. Instead, mail shows up at my UNIX account with the
TO header reading [email-masked].

	Whenever I go to reply to such messages, even if I'm the only
recipient, PINE asks if I want to respond to all addresses <recipients?>. I'd
like a way to tell PINE to stop being so anal about it. :-)

Thanks, in advance, for any insights or information. :-)

					--J
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