> OK, I see what you are saying now, and think it's a good idea.

Ooh.  Thankee.

> I had mistakenly thought you were advocating letting the user determine
> where auto-replies would be directed through a header, instead of
> always replying to the envelope sender address. 
> 
> Does the following jive with what you had in mind?
> 
> Change TMDA so that if an incoming message contains an ``X-TMDA-From''
> header, it will CONFIRM_APPEND that address instead of the Return-Path
> address when the message is confirmed.

Yup.

> Also, change TMDA so that it checks the address in ``X-TMDA-From''
> against FILTER_INCOMING along with the envelope sender, From and
> Reply-To. 

Yup.  Or just that address if it is present.  Your call.

> Essentially this just gives the user a mechanism to specify what
> address he prefers be whitelisted. 
> 
> This should allow me to send fully 'dated' mail if I want, yet still
> get ``[EMAIL PROTECTED]'' added to other TMDA user's whitelists. Now
> the problem discussed in FAQ 4.5 is a non-issue. 

Precisely!  :)

> ``X-TMDA-From'' is just an example name, it could be made more general
> so that other C/R systems could adopt it. 

Exactly.

Should I elaborate on part two of that original post (i.e. a safe 
method for doing auto-confirms between TMDA users), or would that be 
of interest?

P.S. Thanks for posting the link to the -gui list on -workers and for 
signing us up to gmane.  I meant to do that (announce the link), but 
didn't get around to it.  <sheepish grin>

Gre7g.

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