********************************************************************** FTSC FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE ********************************************************************** Publication: FRL-1008 Revision: 1 Title: Kludge for specifying addition e-mail reply addresses Author: Ramon van der Winkel, 1:320/42.46 ramon@wsd.wline.se Issue Date: 27 August 2003 Review Date: N/A ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: 1. Scope 2. Background 3. Format 4. Implementation notes 5. Example ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Status of this document ----------------------- This document is a Fidonet Reference Library document (FRL). This document arises from, and obsoletes FSP-1006.001 which was not promoted to a Fidonet standard. The reasons for this decision are given below. This document is released to the public domain, and may be used, copied or modified for any purpose whatsoever. Adjudication ------------ The FTSC decided not to recommend FSP-1006.001 for promotion to a FidoNet Standard as evidence of current and/or common usage was not discovered. Abstract -------- 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 -------- 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 ------------- 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 additional 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 --------- Following the REPLYTO and REPLYADDR kludges, one or more kludges with the name REPLYALSO can be inserted, each listing one possible reply address. @REPLYALSO Where is in the form of ramon@wsd.wline.se or wsd.wline.se!ramon Each line MUST contain one address only. 4. Implementation notes ----------------------- 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 ---------- From: odinn@goldware.dk, 1:320/42 To: Ramon van der Winkel, 1:320/42.46 Subj: Another test --------------------------------------- @INTL 1:320/42 1:320/42 @TOPT 46 @MSGID: wgmid$<123455@goldware.dk> 45AB23CD @REPLYTO UUCP 1:320/42 @REPLYADDR odinn@goldware.dk @REPLYALSO newftsc-l@brazerko.com This message was distributed by the mailing list "New FTSC" at brazerko.com. ... A. Author contact data ---------------------- Ramon van der Winkel Fidonet: 1:320/42.46 E-mail: ramon@wsd.wline.se WWW: http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon B. History ---------- Rev.1, 971212: First release. ------ 030725: FSP-1006.001 reassigned to FRL-1008.001 **********************************************************************