Re: Changing default reply address

In message <3c5dbd6959.harriet@...>
          Harriet Bazley <lists@...> wrote:

> My energy company has taken to sending its meter read requests from a
> no-reply address instead of the old meterreads@ address, and every time
> I forget to change the default To field when replying and get a bounce
> on my first attempt.   Is there a way to set up a group in such a way
> that replies from that group are sent back to a user-definable address
> which overrides the original From?

Well you got me looking at this one. An interesting problem. Its a petty 
they don't have a reply To header in their email to pointing to the real 
reply address.

I have to do my meter reading on-line, but they do send the email 
reminders to do so from a valid email address you can reply too.

> I tried creating a pseudo-mailing list, but that only works when trying
> to send new messages to the 'list', not when replying to a message
> filtered into that group.  (Probably because these e-mails don't
> actually have any mailing list headers....)

Actually creating a dummy mailing list is one way it might work.

Why do you need to send the whole original email back?

Just thought of a round about way of doing it using a dummy mailing list

Filter the incoming email from your supplier into the dummy mailing list.

Then set up the mailing list with the correct valid return email address.

Open the email you have just received from your supplier, do a Ctrl-A then 
Ctrl-C and copy that into the new dummy mailbox email which then has the 
correct valid reply email address to your supplier.

Long winded I know but should work I think.

The only other option I can think of is to use Shift-W on your incoming 
email from your supplier to open a copy of your incoming email from your 
supplier as a Forward email so that will have no To: address in by 
default.

Don't know if any of the above helps at all.


-- 
Chris Hughes

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