It seems to me this is all backwards. info@domain should have been set up
as a separate role mailbox, to which sally as a user with her own mailbox
has the rights to connect to and send mail as from. (I am not an Exchange
administrator, so do not know the exact terminology!).
I may have missed it, but what is expected to happen if a message is
addressed:
To: info@???, info@???, somethingelse@???
How is whatever system supposed to determine which the outbound reply
message should use for the From?
I would either leave the 'solution' as it is, or persuade the company that
what they want doesn't really make sense, or re-implement things within
Exchange to provide a more sane environment. Despite some interesting
implementation suggestions, getting Exim to try and make this environment
work will be a challenge. Maybe it is time to re-address the reasoning
and go back to basics.
Jethro.
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, helices wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Merlin Hartley
> > IT Systems Engineer
> > MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
> > Wellcome Trust/MRC Building
> > Cambridge Biomedical Campus
> > Cambridge
> > CB2 0XY
> > UK
> >
> >> 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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Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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