[drats_users] Sending Email and Form

[Dan Smith]

> Can you give an example? What domain name do you use? E.g. the "gatewaying"
> station has put "drats at db0fhn.ampr.org" into his "source address" field.
> Will the message be sent with "From: drats at db0fhn.ampr.org, Sender:
> dg8ngn at db0fhn.ampr.org" according to RFC5322? Do you use "Reply-To" ?

Your email is masqueraded behind the gateway station's email address. 
So, lets say you compose an email to "foo at bar.com" and send it to my 
station for gatewaying to the internet.  My station sends the following:

   From: "DG8NGN <kk7ds at arrl.net>"
   To: foo at bar.com
   Subject: $subject

   $message

Most MUAs will then only show "DG8NGN" as the source of the message in 
the listing.  When they hit reply, it will go back to kk7ds at arrl.net, 
where my station will fetch, see that there is a callsign in the To: 
field and queue the result in my outbox to go back to you.

It's not transparent email delivery, nor is it designed to be.  It's 
intended to facilitate communication with an email recipient through 
another station without a lot of setup and prior knowledge about who has 
what setup and how.

> I'd like to choose my full e-mail adress rather than using the "Source
> Callsign" in it.

Well, that would be a bit of a problem.  First, if you put your station 
on the air and allow people to send from any address through your 
station, then I can start sending spam through your machine "from" 
anyone I want.

Second, lets say I use GMail as my SMTP server (as many do).  That 
service, like many others, will not allow me to originate a message from 
an address that I have not already pre-verified as my own.  Thus, my 
station *cannot* arbitrarily allow you to send email from your own email 
address in a generic way, even if it wasn't a security issue.

> Winlink is fine ;)

Great, then you might be better off using that.  Because Winlink is a 
fixed service with some predefined variables, it allows more of a 
transparent experience.  In this example, assume you send an email form 
to my station, addressed to "WL2K:foo at bar.com".  In this example, my 
station composes the following Winlink message and injects it into the 
system:

   From: DG8NGN at winlink.org
   To: foo at bar.com
   Subject: $subject

   $message

You can also right-click on my station in your stations list on the 
right side of the screen and "request mail check" from the WL2K service. 
  Since my station knows how to log in to Winlink as your callsign, it 
will go fetch any mail waiting there and queue it up in the outbox.  As 
you can see, the WL2K support in D-RATS allows you to be a more 
transparent email user, if that's what you want to do.

Does that help?

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS