[Building Sakai] SAK-11994 (Set "Reply-to" in email archive messages to the Sakai email address, not the sender)

[Beth Kirschner]

Owen,

    Can you write this up as a bug? There's no workaround, currently,  
but the code could be changed to use the serverName in sakai.properties.

- Beth

On May 13, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Owen McGrath wrote:

> We're really delighted to see this new option in Email Archive.
> One problem we're seeing in testing, however, is that the Reply-to
> address gets fashioned with the wrong hostname. Instead of the  
> hostname
> of our LMS, it's using the hostname of an MTA component that
> brings the mail to James. [I could see where that would work if
> we had email on the same server as our Sakai instances, but we
> use the local enterprise email as our mail exchanger.]
>
> For example, instead of setting the Reply-to to:
>
>     test_site_051009_om at sakai-qa.berkeley.edu
>
> it sets it to:
>
>   test_site_051009_om at smtp-out1.Berkeley.EDU
>
> Here's a snippet of catalina.out with logging at DEBUG:
>
> 10:54:06,160 DEBUG SakaiMailet:344 - Set Reply-To address to
> test_site_051009_om at smtp-out1.Berkeley.EDU
>
>
> Perhaps I'm just missing a setting? Looking at the revision 51013  
> commit
> for SAK-11994, it appears from the comment that the code is trying to
> anticipate different mail service arrangements. I bet  
> mail.getRemoteHost()
> would work if delivery was from localhost. But that's not our case:
>
>  // Note: can't use recipient, since it's host may be configured as
> mailId at myhost.james
> 346 	  	                                                 MailAddress
> replyTo = new MailAddress( mailId, mail.getRemoteHost() );
> 347 	  	                                                  
> M_log.debug("Set
> Reply-To address to "+ replyTo.toString());
> 348 	  	
> modifiedHeaders.add("Reply-To: "+ replyTo.toString());
>
>
>
> -Owen McGrath
>
>
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