Using a Variable in <mvSMPT> Reply-To

[robinemcd]

Hello,

I am trying to include a reply-to address in emails that get sent out from my non-merchant application. I have been successful when I hard code an email address such as:

REPLY-TO: "[email protected]"

But, when I try it with a local variable:

REPLY-TO: "{ l.email_reply }"

The Reply-To comes through literally as:

{ l.email_reply }

I am sure this is just due to my lack of knowledge and that there is a simple solution that hopefully someone can help me with.

Below are some code snip-its to show what I am trying to do.

....Removed unnecessary code for this example

&lt;MvASSIGN NAME="l.email_reply" VALUE="[email protected]"&gt;

....Removed unnecessary code for this example

&lt;MvSMTP
MAILHOST = "localhost"
TO = "{ l.email_to }"
CC = "{l.email_cc}"
FROM = "{ l.email_from }"
SUBJECT = "{ l.email_subject }"&gt;
REPLY-TO: "{ l.email_reply }"

&lt;MvEVAL EXPR="{ l.BodyText }"&gt;
&lt;/MvSMTP&gt;

Thanks in advance for your help!

Robin McDermott

[ILoveHostasaurus]

I'd try supplying the noheaders value to the FLAGS attribute, and then defining all of the header values yourself, as I suspect the FROM could be overriding the reply-to you're trying to set.

So try using FLAGS (to set noheaders), MAILHOST, CC, FROM and TO, but not SUBJECT (since you'll be required to supply that later), then the rest in header/body area. Your code would look something like this:

<MvSMTP
 FLAGS = "noheaders"
 MAILHOST = "localhost"
 TO = "{ l.email_to }"
 CC = "{l.email_cc}"
 FROM = "{ l.email_from }">
Subject: { l.email_subject }
Reply-To: <{ l.email_reply }>
From: "Display Name If Applicable" <{ l.email_from }>
To: <{ l.email_to }>

<MvEVAL EXPR="{ l.BodyText }">
</MvSMTP>

[robinemcd]

Hi, thanks for the thoughts. Unfortunately, that didn't do the trick. Here is the header when I used that code (I replaced real info with xxx in domain names):

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on xxx.us
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,
    MISSING_DATE,MISSING_MID,TO_MALFORMED,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.1
Received: (qmail 34257 invoked by uid 30); 20 Apr 2016 13:36:30 -0400
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: (qmail 34249 invoked by uid 30); 20 Apr 2016 13:36:30 -0400
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: (qmail 34240 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2016 13:36:30 -0400
Received: from unknown (HELO rehostserver.us) (0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001)
  by 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 with ESMTPA; 20 Apr 2016 13:36:30 -0400
Subject: { l.email_subject }
Reply-To: <{ l.email_reply }>
From: "Display Name If Applicable" <{ l.email_from }>
To: <{ l.email_to }>
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAASW2/CA=
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA==

All of the variables have been defined above this code.

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Sorry, I don't actually know MivaScript, so I left off the mveval. Try:

<MvSMTP
 FLAGS = "noheaders"
 MAILHOST = "localhost"
 TO = "{ l.email_to }"
 CC = "{ l.email_cc }"
 FROM = "{ l.email_from }">
Subject: <MvEVAL EXPR="{ l.email_subject }">
Reply-To: <MvEVAL EXPR="{ '<' $ l.email_reply $ '>' }">
From: "Display Name If Applicable" <MvEVAL EXPR="{ '<' $ l.email_from $ '>' }">
To: <MvEVAL EXPR="{ '<' $ l.email_to $ '>' }">

<MvEVAL EXPR="{ l.BodyText }">
</MvSMTP>

And of course replace or remove the display name as appropriate; I just threw that in there so you'd know how to have a "From" with both a display name and email.

[robinemcd]

Wow! awesome. It worked. I would say you do KNOW mivascript!

Thank you.

Robin