setting reply to in VMS 5.x MAIL

Bill, I dumped everything in my head about this topic into my previous email. At some stage, you need to pick up the manual (or download it from the Process Software website) and read it. I looked in the Multinet 4.3 Users Guide and found "Reply-to" in the index referring me to page 8-10 in the Administrators Guide. There I found: Quote: Specifying the REPLY_TO Header The MULTINET_SMTP_REPLY_TO logical name lets you specify the value for the RFC822 REPLY-TO: header. For example to set your Reply-To: header to FNORD at FLOWERS.COM, use the command: $ DEFINE MULTINET_SMTP_REPLY_TO "FNORD at FLOWERS.COM" This logical name only affects mail agents that use the SMTP% interface (for example OpenVMS and DECWindows mail). Endquote. In case it is not clear, you should define this logical name in DCL before you run VMS MAIL and it will then apply when you send mail to an address prefixed by SMTP%. I will add that you could probably use DEFINE /SYSTEM if you want this to apply to all users on the system or you could put the command in a users login.com if you only want it to apply to that particular user. If you want to get really fancy, you can use lexical functions such as for example F$GETJPI(0, "USERNAME") to come up with a single logical name definition that will work correctly for any user on the system without modification. I used the Multinet 4.3 manual because it happened to be handy. I imagine the same applies any later version of Multinet and might also apply to some but not all earlier versions. I will also repeat the warning that I often give, that the SMTP mail interface provided with Multinet is functional but not comprehensive. My feeling is that it is mainly there to be able to tick the box that says that SMTP is supported. If you want a top class email setup, you should install PMDF, from the same company. Regards, Peter Coghlan.