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10.7 Mail setting Reply To help

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#1 ·
My sister recently got a Mac Mini, which came with Lion installed.

She has Sympatico internet, which means that any mail she sends has to go through their outgoing mail servers.

Her regular e-mail address is something like sister@something.ca, which she likes to use more than her Sympatico email account.

When people reply to e-mails she sends, the replies go to her Sympatico account. How can this be stopped?

I looked on the Internet and found something about setting default Reply To header in Terminal, and then read that this does not work for 10.7.

Any ideas or maybe does the Terminal method work in 10.7?

Many thanks, as I'd like to help out my sister, who's computer cautious.
 
#2 ·
Sep up that @something.ca account as a unique account in mail, if you haven't already, and use it as the 'from' address. Additionally, you could look at using the @something.ca SMTP servers for sending mail, rather than Sympatico's. There shouldn't be any need to mess around in Terminal.
 
#3 ·
Hi Johnny,

Unfortunately, Sympatico does something so that mail does not get sent out with any SMTP servers other than theirs. Maybe it's changed, and I'll try again when tomorrow.

I'm not really a computer person, but I read that Sympatico does this to somehow limit spam that might be sent out from other SMTP servers?
 
#4 ·
So, here's what I did to force a Reply-To to be added to every e-mail sent from Mail:


How to Add a Reply-To Header to All Emails You Send in Mac OS X Mail - About Email

A Reply-To Header Not Once, Not Twice, But Always
You know how to add a "Reply-To" header to an email you are composing in Mac OS X Mail, and you do find it useful. But also cumbersome if one wants every outgoing email to carry that information — and that's what you want.
Fortunately, Mac OS X Mail has a somewhat concealed facility that lets you add any header — include a "Reply-To" line — to emails you send automatically.
Add a Reply-To Header to All Emails You Send in Mac OS X Mail
To make Mac OS X Mail add a custom "Reply-To" header line to all emails you send:
• Open Terminal.
• Type "defaults read com.apple.mail UserHeaders".
• Press Enter.
• If that command returns "The domain/default pair of (com.apple.mail, UserHeaders) does not exist":
◦ Type "defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To" = "reply-to@address"; }'" (excluding the outermost quotation marks) and replace reply-to@address with the address you want to be used for replies.
• If the "defaults read" command above returns a line of values that starts with "{" and ends in "}":
◦ Highlight the entire line. It might read something like {Bcc = "bcc@address"; }, for example.
◦ Press Command-C.
◦ Type "defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '" (excluding the outer quotation marks).
◦ Press Command-V.
◦ Type "'".
◦ Insert '"Reply-To" = "reply-to@address"; ' in front of the closing "}" character, replacing reply-to@address with the email address you want to be used for replies.
The line might now read defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{Bcc = "bcc@address"; "Reply-To" = "reply-to@address"; }', for example.
• Press Enter.
Caution
Unfortunately, this method of adding a Reply-To header works too well in some situations. Once in place, there is no way to make Mail not append it to a particular mail. You cannot change the address while composing a message either.
To make any changes to the Reply-To header, you have to go the route of the terminal.
Disable Automatic Reply-To Headers Again in Mac OS X Mail
To turn off all "Reply-To:" headers:
• Execute "defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders" at a Terminal prompt to delete all custom headers or set UserHeaders back to what it was before you added "Reply-To".
 
#5 ·
I cannot imagine why anyone would want this feature. Apple Mail has a one click button that replies to any email you receive and any computer that receives an email from you has the same feature. Or am I missing something that might be useful about such a header? Not to mention, that much tinkering in Terminal for an average user is just asking for a major screw up possible for one missed keystroke.
 
#6 ·
I cannot imagine why anyone would want this feature. Apple Mail has a one click button that replies to any email you receive and any computer that receives an email from you has the same feature. Or am I missing something that might be useful about such a header?

True - any computer that receives an email from you has a one click button that replies to any email you receive. The actual purpose of the Terminal hack as is described is to FORCE a return address link in a sent e-mail to point to an address like sister@preferredaccount.ca RATHER than sister@sympatico.ca.

Not to mention, that much tinkering in Terminal for an average user is just asking for a major screw up possible for one missed keystroke.

Also true - but there may be no other DIRECT way to force this change of the "Reply to" address.

Another method might be for the sister in question to simply leave the headers as they are and simply set up a forward of ALL e-mail from the sympatico account to her favorite account.

-Daniel
 
#9 ·
Have had Sympatico since forever, have not used a @sympatico.ca email address much, and have never had one email go out with a reply-to of sympatico.ca (unless from that account). But I've read about this before. So odd!

Oh, also, it's overdue to switch from Sympatico.

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