Lotus Notes Gurus -- Please Help!

[David Smith]

At 2:13 PM -0500 11/11/99, Shane Lenagh wrote:
>Several people have told me that my address is not coming across correctly.  I
>want to remedy the issue, but I know little about Lotus notes.  You could say
>that I hate Notes with a passion -- and still be understating my 
>feelings.  But
>it is what the corporation I am working for uses.


Your From: line seems correct to me.  Below I included some of the 
header from your message as I received it.  Notes sets internet 
addresses at the SMTP gateway, and there is generally not much the 
user can do about what comes across.  For a notes account your from 
is incredibly clean (no "name/blah/dep/company/..." <internet style 
address"

--header lines--
From: Shane Lenagh <Shane.Lenagh.B "at" bayer.com>
To: "        -         *vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com" 
<vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
Sender: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
--header lines--

Your to is strange, but within the SMTP specs, you have "" around the 
strange stuff, the real address, used in routing in inside the <>.


>I use mail filters to deal with mail coming to me from mailing lists.  You
>are now on the vnc list.  Apparently you are using bcc or lcc or something
>to send mail to that list.  Thus incoming mail does not have vnc in the To
>field.  You are unique in this way.  I hope I can persuade you to send
>your mail in the usual way so that I (and others like me) can filter the
>list mail appropriately.

Majordomo puts a "Sender:" line on all messages and it is recommended 
that filters use this line, which will always be "Sender: 
owner-<listname>@<list server> rather than filtering on recipient. 
This is because there are so many ways that a message may get to a 
list, the list name may be in the To, CC, or no standard header but 
the "Sender:" line will ALWAYS be in a list produced by a Majordomo 
mailing list.  NOTE, I have found that the part after the @ is more 
likely to change, if say the list moved servers, while the owner 
rarely changes.

My filters for mailing lists are all set up on the Sender line if the 
list has one (of 30 lists only one does not have a Sender line, this 
one does have one), and I have never gotten a misfiltered message.
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David A. Smith
<smithd "at" blkbox.com>
The box said: "Needs Windows 98 or better," so I bought a Macintosh.

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