Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/28/09:12:39
It may be Bad Form to respond to oneself but :
> Sent: 28 January 2004 13:44 From: Hughes, Bill
>
> > Sent: 28 January 2004 13:18 From: Dave Korn
..snip..
> > 3>It limits a subscriber's freedom to choose how he or she
> > will direct a
> > response.
> >
> > Again, I'll agree that munging shouldn't be automatic,
> and shouldn't
> > overwrite any *existing* Reply-to header.
> But unless I'm mistaken (which I may well be) by not
> explicitly setting a
> reply-to header the sender has chosen for the reply to go to
> the address in
> the From header, so you would be going against the posters wishes.
From RFC822:
AUTOMATIC USE OF FROM / SENDER / REPLY-TO
For systems which automatically generate address lists for
replies to messages, the following recommendations are made:
o The "Sender" field mailbox should be sent notices of
any problems in transport or delivery of the original
messages. If there is no "Sender" field, then the
"From" field mailbox should be used.
o The "Sender" field mailbox should NEVER be used
automatically, in a recipient's reply message.
o If the "Reply-To" field exists, then the reply should
go to the addresses indicated in that field and not to
the address(es) indicated in the "From" field.
o If there is a "From" field, but no "Reply-To" field,
the reply should be sent to the address(es) indicated
in the "From" field.
Sometimes, a recipient may actually wish to communicate with
the person that initiated the message transfer. In such
cases, it is reasonable to use the "Sender" address.
This recommendation is intended only for automated use of
originator-fields and is not intended to suggest that replies
may not also be sent to other recipients of messages. It is
up to the respective mail-handling programs to decide what
additional facilities will be provided.
..snip..
> > And I think the cygwin list by providing the posters with
> > every kind of option gets it most right of all.
> Or is it as sign of cgf admitting defeat and bowing to the
> pressure :-)
Having thought about this I agree with Dave. I now regard it as helping out
those people who have simple/broken email clients and would like to have the
ability to set Reply To on a custom basis but can't. Well done again cgf.
This would be a good way to go with more mailing lists.
P.S. Apologies all for the numerous spelling and grammatical errors in the
previous post :-(
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