No, the MUA will not change. The MUA is - various versions of - Outlook,
which is not going to change.
I get it that this may not be good application for the MTA
The current, antiquated solution is a mess of intermediary scripts.
Unfortunately, these scripts have zero documentation, are poorly
written, the relationship between various scripts is unknown, and the
entire process is riddled with intermittent failures - hence, system
redesign.
I am open to all suggestions; but, I hope that this new system can be
simplified to the point of ease of maintenance. Ideally, the solution
will simply work and not be dependent on MTA, MUA, etc. software
versions ...
On 3/3/2015 10:59 AM, Merlin Hartley wrote:
> Are you sure you don’t want to do this in the MUA?
>
> In Thunderbird, for example, you just create multiple identities and
> they are automatically used in exactly the way you describe… you can
> even have a different signature for each ‘From’ address.
>
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>> On 3 Mar 2015, at 02:56, helices <exim@???
>> <mailto:exim@mdsresource.net>> wrote:
>>
>> I am tasked to design, build and maintain a new MTA. The company has
>> one special requirement, for which I'm investigating the simplest
>> solution:
>>
>> For each incoming message received, every outgoing "reply" must use
>> the "To:" address from the incoming received message as the "From:"
>> address in the outgoing reply.
>>
>> This is trivial when the incoming has "To: sally@???
>> <mailto:sally@domain.com>," Sally reads and replies, and the outgoing
>> message has "From: sally@??? <mailto:sally@domain.com>"
>>
>> It's trickier when the incoming has "To: info@???
>> <mailto:info@domain.com>," the MTA delivers to an Exchange server,
>> which distributes that message to Sally, and Sally replies. What is
>> the simplest way for that outgoing message to use "From:
>> info@??? <mailto:info@domain.com>?"
>>
>> Scope is roughly one hundred (100) different domains and, possibly,
>> thousands of combinations with various username@???
>> <mailto:username@domain.com>.
>>
>> Ideally, the MTA will handle all of header address processing,
>> whatever that process might look like. I seek the simplest solution,
>> regardless how that process looks and compares to the status quo.
>>
>> Please, advise. Thank you.
>>
>> ~Mike
>>
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