[drats_users] d-rats and email question

[Wayne Chapman]

I'm trying to determine if something is possible to do using D-Rats and 
email.


Assume KK7DS is running D-Rats and wants to send an email to 
yahoo-email at yahoo.com over RF to KG5WU also running D-Rats.

Assume that KK7DS wishes to receive a reply from yahoo-email at yahoo.com.

Assume KG5WU is configured with an SMTP Outgoing Email account of 
kg5wu-example at gmail.com.

Assume KK7DS is configured with a POP Incoming Email account of 
kk7ds-example at gmail.com.

So ... The email from KK7DS passes through KG5WU (via RF) then out 
through kg5wu-example at gmail.com and arrives in the inbox of 
yahoo-email at yahoo.com and the person replies.


The question is:  What is the path back to the D-Rats inbox of KK7DS ?


Here's my assumption:  When the person at yahoo-email at yahoo.com clicks 
"Reply", email should go to kk7ds-example at gmail.com and be received into 
the D-Rats inbox of KK7DS via the POP account the next time it polls.

For that to happen, the smtp-replyto address of the sender (KK7DS) 
should be in the Reply-To header of the email arriving at 
yahoo-email at yahoo.com.


What I'm seeing is that the Outgoing Mail "Source Address" 
(smtp-replyto) value of the pass-through station (KG5WU) is in the 
Reply-To header instead.

When I remove the Source Address from the configuration, a different 
email address appears in the Reply-To header:  DO_NOT_REPLY at d-rats.com.

If I were to put kk7ds-example at gmail.com in the configuration for Source 
Address, then it would appear in the Reply-To header arriving at 
yahoo-email at yahoo.com.  Of course, that's would not be done in practice.


A second question:  Is it possible to receive a reply via RF?  That is, 
the reply comes back to the pass-through station via internet (KG5WU in 
the example) and is auto-forwarded to the sending station via RF (KK7DS 
in the example)?  I know I can initiate a forward.  But can D-Rats do it 
without me?



Thanks !!!  and 73 de Wayne/kg5wu

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