Hello guys,

I've got a complaint from my admins about the replying of qmail (here
in conjunction with qmail-ldap).

There are a number of generic accounts on the system (such as info@
and sales@) which are only forwarded to a number of people but are
not a mailbox by themselfes. The problem that came up now is that
if one of those recipients sets a reply message also the senders of
mail to the generic address get a reply. Unfortunatly this confuses
the senders and is not intented since some else of that department
is taking care of the messages.

My question is what is the best way to detect a forwarded message
and hinder the reply program to reply to the mail?

One way I could image is to add a header while forwarding like:
 forwarded-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and make the reply program to recognise this (like precedence 
bulk).

Is there any standard way of handling this kind of situation? If
yes I'll implement that into qmail-ldap, otherwise the forwarded-
to header.

-- 
Andre

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