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Author: Terry
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] block replies only
On 07-Feb-17 10:33 AM, Mike Brudenell wrote:
> Hi, Terry -
>
> To clarify… Are you saying you'd like this behaviour between two people "A"
> and "B":
>
>     1. A sends a message to B and it is delivered to B.
>     2. B replies to A and it is delivered to A.
>     3. Any further reply from A should be delivered to C instead?

>
> (You also confuse things a bit by saying in the Subject you want to "block"
> replies, but within your message say you want to "forward" them: very
> different actions! :-)
>
> The usual way to do this would be for B's reply at step (2) to include a
> "Reply-to:" header to request that if A replies their response goes to the
> email address specified — in the example above that of C:
>
> Reply-to: John Smith <C@???>
>
>
> This header would usually be added by B's email reading software (this is
> the best option), or I guess you could configure Exim so that any messages
> being sent out from A had the header added (after deleting any that are
> already present?).
>
> Note that including a "Reply-to:" header is merely a *request* to A's email
> client program to send any further reply to C instead of B. However most
> email reading programs do honour this, so would likely do what you want.
>
> An alternative…
>
> If you're not worried about B's address showing in the "From:" header of
> their reply I guess you could send the reply at step (2) back from C's
> address. That's arguably more sure of directing any future replies from A
> to C as you've removed B's email address from the headers, but the person
> who originally wrote in to B might be surprised and confused at getting a
> reply from C instead!
>
> I'd suggest trying adding the "Reply-to:" header to B's replies in the
> first instance…
>
> Cheers,
> Mike B-)
>
> On 7 February 2017 at 09:33, Terry via Exim-users <exim-users@???>
> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to block reply emails only to a single address but not the
>> original emails please ?
>> So if you send me a new email that is fine I then reply to your email I do
>> not want a reply back to that. I would need to forward it else where.
>> We are basically trying to automate some thing but running into problems
>> when people reply so if I could do some thing server end that would be handy
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>>


Hi Mike yes that is correct my fault with the mention of blocking. We
have got around it by using an outlook rule and the Reply-to as you
mentioned to
sort the emails as needed