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The Question is: It's a problem that nearly drove me nuts. When eMails were received from freemail.de they contain in their header an empty "Reply-To:" field. These mails cannot be read correctly with an eMail client like MS Outlook via the POP-server of OpenVMS. Retrieving these Messages from the POP-server with telnet one can see thet there is a 'local jacket' in spite of all the logicals set. The jacket fields are: Date: ... From: <@lotto-berlin.de> Subject: ... To: pauli@lotto-berlin.de X-VMS-From: SMTP%"" It seems to me that SMTP ignored the contents of the "From:"-field in the presence of the (empty) "Reply-To:" field and took the (empty) contents of the latter field as a 'user name only' address, accordingly padded with the local domain name. Even if an empty "Reply-To:" field is a breach of RFC 822 this behavior is a nuisance. Is there a way to work around this ? Regards, Thomas The Answer is : If a more current release of TCP/IP Services does not help resolve this problem, please contact Compaq Customer Support for assistance. The list of SMTP return addresses that are checked for and used by OpenVMS include the following (ordered) list of fields: Resent-Reply-To Resent-From Reply-To From Resent-Sender Sender Return-Path OpenVMS then (should) use the first of these fields that it finds as the return address for the message. The OpenVMS Wizard has passed a report of this problem along to the TCP/IP Services engineering team, but is not in a position to provide further feedback or a fix for this -- if this is found to be a bug in TCP/IP Services, of course.
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