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["mike" <mike AT pikeaero.com>]

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Just thinking out loud here:

What about if we had an email gateway:

For OpenNIC->ICANN mail, the gateway would re-write the reply-to such
that ICANN hosts can reply to the email gateway, and the gateway can
parse the reply and then direct the email to the appropriate OpenNIC
host.

So let's say the OpenNIC email gateway resides at an ICANN name as
mail.opennicproject.org and the OpenNIC email address that I am
sending from is mike AT 8bit.geek and let us also assume that I am
sending an email to mike AT pikeaero.com and then I expect a reply.

So at my SMTP client-end I would setup my SMTP relay as
mail.opennicproject.org then address my email to mike AT pikeaero.com
with my reply-to set as mike AT 8bit.geek and then the gateway should
re-write my reply-to email as
"mike AT 8bit.geek"@mail.opennicproject.org, correct?

In addition, since some email handlers may botch the local-part of
that kind of encoding, we might also include the OpenNIC reply-to
inside the display-name part for instance the reply-to might look like:

Mike Sharkey (mike AT 8bit.geek) <"mike AT 8bit.geek"@mail.opennicproject.org>

I realize that some brain-dead email handlers are likely to botch this
because of the two '@' signs.

So perhaps the gateway might rewrite the reply-to as:

Mike Sharkey (mike AT 8bit.geek) <(mike)8bit.geek AT mail.opennicproject.org>

Using the comment delimiters () in the local part of the reply-to
might be acceptable to more email handlers with the omission of the
second @ sign.

I dunno, any thoughts on this?

- --Mike

On 07/09/2012 10:50 AM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
> We used to have free OpenNIC email addresses. I know at least my
> server will accept and send OpenNIC mails with no problem, so you
> can use an OpenNIC address on the mailing list.  However, it is
> fairly difficult to promote OpenNIC email usage as so many people
> can't use it.  For instance, while I could send something to
> gmail.com as purrdeta AT purrdeta.free, they could never respond.
> Thus, really the only people who could receive/send opennic mails
> reliably would be those of us here who also run email servers and I
> don't know if there are many people who do that.
> 
> I'd love to see perhaps a free opennic email provider pop up again
> though. :)
> 
> On Jul 9, 2012, at 1:19 AM, mike wrote:
> 
>> Hi Alex,
>> 
>> I've just been migrating my email to a new server, retiring the
>> old one so my email has been a little wobbly last couple days.
>> 
>> I think I have most of it sorted out now.
>> 
>> On the topic of email, do we have any kind of a game plan for 
>> promoting OpenNIC email usage? I understand there are issues
>> with ICANN<->OpenNIC email exchanges, but what about promoting / 
>> encouraging using OpenNIC email addresses while using OpenNIC?
>> 
>> - --Mike
>> 
>> On 07/09/2012 12:27 AM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
>>> No problem of course. It is not just you. And I know it can
>>> happen very easily if you use more than one client. I often
>>> times send email as a different email than I meant to.  This is
>>> definitely more of a "heads up" email than anything else :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 8, 2012, at 7:08 PM, mike wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Alex, sorry I missed this email. I'll take care of my
>>>> email addresses.
>>>> 
>>>> THanks for the info.
>>>> 
>>>> - --Mike
>>>> 
>>>> On 07/08/2012 06:40 PM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
>>>>> Hi guys!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just wanted to remind you all that you need to send
>>>>> emails to our lists from the email address that is
>>>>> subscribed.  I've been getting several things in the
>>>>> moderation queue recently.  If you want to be able to send
>>>>> to the list from multiple addresses, you can subscribe
>>>>> multiple addresses and set them to "nomail" in the Sympa
>>>>> interface at https://lists.opennicproject.org/..  I am
>>>>> always hesitant to approve emails in the queue because
>>>>> sometimes people have an email address they use just for
>>>>> this list or the one that is sent might be a personal one.
>>>>> It isn't my job to decide if your email address that you
>>>>> sent with should be archived on the internet for the rest
>>>>> of eternity ;)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am fairly certain Sympa also sends you a warning if you
>>>>> try to post from an address that is not registered.  Pretty
>>>>> much the ONLY time a message is held for moderation is if
>>>>> it is an email not subscribed, but you are welcome to
>>>>> contact me for clarification if you need to!  Keep a look
>>>>> out in the archive and whatnot to see if your messages are
>>>>> being sent as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'd also like to point out that we have a great web
>>>>> interface for managing all of your subscriptions, archives,
>>>>> and preferences! I can help you with it if need be, but it
>>>>> is a great tool if you want to be subscribed to a list but
>>>>> not receive every message, if you want to change your email
>>>>> or whatever the case may be.  You must log in to it with
>>>>> your username and password from the
>>>>> members.opennicproject.org site if the email attached to
>>>>> your opennic account is the same as the email subscribed.
>>>>> Otherwise, you can request a first time password from
>>>>> there.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you. Please let me know in this thread or off list if
>>>>> you have any questions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --- Alex Hanselka alex AT opennicproject.org
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --- Alex Hanselka alex AT opennicproject.org
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> --- Alex Hanselka alex AT opennicproject.org
> 
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