I’m at a large company and we are constantly developing and deploying spoof mail boxes. These requests always pop up on short notice and they are just a hassle to do.
I would like to develop a single spoof mail system that we could simply configure for each new spoof mailbox. The idea is to eliminate developer/administrator involvement in the deployment process - we could essentially have an intern or admin assistant create a configuration document (or some such thing) in this system and the spoof mailbox would be done.
I’m assuming I’m not the first to think of this so I’m wondering if anyone out there has an example application from which we could borrow?
I’m not sure what you mean by “Spoofmail” is the samething I mean?
I just developed a “Corporate Communications Tool” which I just modeled on the Send Mail Form with a “From” field.
(I also have options to specify when an e-mail is sent, include exclude the header, return receipt, etc.)
The people who then have access to this system, say HR, can then send out communications with a from that says “Bulk Mai” or a particular real address they want response to go to.
Thanks for your reply!We do have several broadcast-only applications in place, similar to what you describe. I’m thinking of something that can support both sending and receiving of messages. The trick would be the received messages would have to go to the specific ‘spoofed’ sender. How? I’m not sure…
In your memo if you have Principal set your email will look like it came from that “Person” (it can be any string value - a real name in your Address Book to “The CEO”)
If you also set ReplyTo, then you can specify WHERE any e-mail replies will go. This could be a mail in Database, an existing Lotus Notes name or group.
Those are what I use to get the e-mail out to people and have them looking like they from a particular address and where the e-mail should go if they Reply (most of ours we turn off the headed and specifically say “Do Not Reply” at the top - not to say people don’t do this - Away messages).
BTW, to turn off the header it’s
Call .AppendItemValue("$HideMailHeader","1")
Then your e-mail doesn’t show the TO, From, Subject - except on the folder and views.
If you still wanted the e-mail to come back to your system and be processed from their - then you’d need it to be a mail in DB. You could process the e-mails when the come in based on the subject (assuming people didn’t change it - which would be a BIG BAD assumption) and send that e-mail to whomever you specify.
So the e-mail arrives looking like this:
Open it and you see this (remember we hide the header) - I cut off most of the body as it’s not for general knowledge.