Sending mails from different addresses

[Liszt]

Our customer has asked if we can create a mail from our systems, which is sent to customers (who have opted in, of course) but instead of the sent from/reply to address being that of the parent company(which the systems at head office are providing) the selling agents email address is used.

So effectively, a mail goes out overnight from a central system and the customer can just hit "reply" and it is routed to the agent.

Any ideas? I am guessing that some sort of MAPI call could do it, but it is not my area of expertese.

[plotloss]

Yep simple SMTP script, same sort of thing as used with email webforms.

Loads of code on the web, the From field is soft and can be whatever you like.

The headers will still report the orginator but it will appear at first glance to come from someone else.

[_dobbo_]

The thing with SMTP email is that your From: address and Reply-To: address can be anything you want. This makes it very easy to do what you want - you could probably do it with Outlook Express!

However if you are talking about posting a large number of these, you should look into mailing list software which is designed to do this, as this will handle bounce management etc.