# Kludge for specifying addition e-mail reply addresses.

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    FTSC                             FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE
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    Publication:    FSP-1006
    Revision:       1
    Title:          Kludge for specifying addition e-mail reply addresses
    Author:         Ramon van der Winkel, 1:320/42.46
                    ramon@wsd.wline.se
    Revision Date:  12 December 1997
    Expiry Date:    12 December 1999
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    Contents:
                    1. Scope
                    2. Background
                    3. Format
                    4. Implementation notes
                    5. Example
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    Status of this document
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      This document is a Fidonet Standards Proposal (FSP).

      This document specifies an optional Fidonet standard protocol for
      the Fidonet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
      improvements.

      This document is released to the public domain, and may be used,
      copied or modified for any purpose whatever.

    Abstract
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      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
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      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
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      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 addtional 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
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      Following the REPLYTO and REPLYADDR kludges, one or more kludges
      with the name REPLYALSO can be inserted, each listing one possible
      reply address.

      @REPLYALSO <e-mail address>

      Where <e-mail address> is in the form of

         ramon@wsd.wline.se
      or
         wsd.wline.se!ramon

      Each line MUST contain one address only.

    4. Implementation notes
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      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
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      From: odinn@goldware.dk, 1:320/42
      To:   Ramon van der Winkel, 1:320/42.46
      Subj: Another test
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      @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
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      Ramon van der Winkel
      Fidonet: 1:320/42.46
      E-mail:  ramon@wsd.wline.se
      WWW:     http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon

    B. History
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      Rev.1, 971212: First release.

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