Re: [Pan-users] Pan email snag

[Charles Kerr]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:10:24AM +0000, Brian Morrison wrote:

> When I post to Usenet I use an invalid address within my own domain,
> hence anything that arrives addressed to it will bounce as exim simply
> says "550 Do not darken my door etc".
> 
> Now, my Reply-To: address is valid. However, if I choose to reply by
> email, Pan uses the invalid From address and exim quite understandably
> says "550 user unknown". I can't see any way of making this work
> properly without a change to Pan so that the address used in mail is the
> Reply-To: address put put into the From: field.
> 
> Anyone else see a similar problem? I suppose it's because I run my own
> smtp server being an unusual dialup customer who has static IP and smtp
> mail delivery.
> 
> Could I have a setting that says "Use Reply-To address as From address
> in mail replies"?

Why not just add another profile with a valid From header?

cheers,
Charles