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List:       james-user
Subject:    Re: How to Set InternetAddress Personal Name
From:       "Hutson Carspecken" <hut () myprivacypolicy ! com>
Date:       2003-07-25 16:12:01
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Yes,  I have a lot of work to do.  Thanks for looking .

Hut
----- Original Message -----
From: "Serge Knystautas" <sergek@lokitech.com>
To: "James Users List" <server-user@james.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: How to Set InternetAddress Personal Name


> Hutson Carspecken wrote:
> > I am forwarding e-mails into our company through a gateway e-mail
server.  I
> > want to keep the original senders personal name, but I also need to
attach
> > the name of the proxy e-mail server.  So, from this e-mail, I see that
the
> > sender is:  "Serge Knystautas" <sergek@lokitech.com>.  I would like to
> > change that so a person in our company receiving e-mail from you would
see
> > the following:
> >
> > "Serge Knystautas" <email_recipient@mycompany.com>
> >
> > That is to say, the personal name would remain the original personal
name,
> > but the e-mail address would be the recipent's own "outward-facing"
email
> > address...the one which the original sender (in this example, yourself)
used
> > to reach the company employee.
>
> Ok, makes sense.
>
> > I am making headway with the required code and am somewhat close.  Tell
me
> > what you think of this code snippet.
> >
> > String prevPersonalName;
> >
> > Mail myMail = new Mail();
> > prevPersonalName = origMail.getMessage().getFrom().getPersonal();
> > myMail.getMessage().setPersonal( prevPersonalName);
>
> I think this is just a typo, but I think you meant setPersonal on
> myMail.getMessage().getFrom() (not getMessage()).
>
> I'm not sure why this isn't working for you... maybe it's some strange
> issue where it's updating a copy of the message's From header.
>
> Overall though, I think you have a tough job ahead of you because of the
> following:
> a) creating a new message will be very hard because of the amount of
> relevant headers you'd need to copy from the original to the copy.
> b) modifying the original is hard because you also have to go sanitize
> the Received headers, and possibly elsewhere as well.  Otherwise someone
> could see what your actual email address is.
>
> Actually, the more I read your idea, the more confused I get.  Why would
> you change the **FROM** of a message.  "Serge Knystautas"'s address
> stays the same... in fact the email address I put as the TO or CC would
> stay the same because it already is the "outward-facing" address,
> otherwise it wouldn't have reached your company employee.
>
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>
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