FTSC FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE

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FTSC FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE
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Publication: FSP-1006
Revision: 1
Title: Kludge for specifying addition e-mail reply addresses
Author: Ramon van der Winkel, 1:320/42.46
[email protected]
Revision Date: 12 December 1997
Expiry Date: 12 December 1999
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Contents:
1. Scope
2. Background
3. Format
4. Implementation notes
5. Example
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Status of this document
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This document is a Fidonet Standards Proposal (FSP).

This document specifies an optional Fidonet standard protocol for
the Fidonet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements.

This document is released to the public domain, and may be used,
copied or modified for any purpose whatever.

Abstract
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An Internet message can have several reply addresses. After gating
to FidoNet, the recipient is only presented with one of the reply
addresses. The others are lost. This is a suggestion for an
additional kludge to FSC-0035 to change that.

1. Scope
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This standard is specified for FTN netmail messages sent by a
FidoNet-to-Internet gateway to a recipient. Message editors will
have to support this to allow the user to select the reply address
to use.

2. Background
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An Internet message has three headers to indicate where to send a
reply. These are, in order of priority, Reply-To:, Sender: and
From:. When a message is distributed by a mailing list, then one of
the headers could contain the e-mail address of the poster and one
of the other headers the address of the mailing list.

When the message is gated to FidoNet, the gateway currently selects
of the reply addresses and creates the message so that a reply will
return at the gateway and sent to this one address. The other
addresses are lost.

The FSC-0035 kludges REPLYTO and REPLYADDR allow for one return
address only. This is a proposal for an additional kludge inserted
by the gateway to specify an addtional reply address. The message
editor used by the recipient will present a list of all reply
addresses and allows the user to select the appropriate address.

This way, the user can send a message back to the mailing list (for
distribution), or to the e-mail address of the poster only.

3. Format
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Following the REPLYTO and REPLYADDR kludges, one or more kludges
with the name REPLYALSO can be inserted, each listing one possible
reply address.

@REPLYALSO <e-mail address>

Where <e-mail address> is in the form of

[email protected]
or
wsd.wline.se!ramon

Each line MUST contain one address only.

4. Implementation notes
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Gateways supporting the REPLYALSO kludge MUST put the the reply
address with the highest priority in the REPLYADDR kludge. The order
of priority is Reply-To:, Sender: and From: header. The other
addresses may be listed in any priority.

5. Example
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From: [email protected], 1:320/42
To: Ramon van der Winkel, 1:320/42.46
Subj: Another test
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@INTL 1:320/42 1:320/42
@TOPT 46
@MSGID: wgmid$<[email protected]> 45AB23CD
@REPLYTO UUCP 1:320/42
@REPLYADDR [email protected]
@REPLYALSO [email protected]
This message was distributed by the mailing list "New FTSC"
at brazerko.com.

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A. Author contact data
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Ramon van der Winkel
Fidonet: 1:320/42.46
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon

B. History
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Rev.1, 971212: First release.

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