Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/02/16:47:53
At 03:57 PM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
>Suggestion -- When a user selects a message sent to the Cygwin mailing
>in their mailer and activates the mailer "Reply" feature, the reply
>should be addressed to the Cygwin list, not the original poster.
>
On this list, if you want any replies to your posts to go only to the list,
you need to set your "Reply-To" to point to the list.
>David
>
>
>p.s. I looked at the headers for my "Subject: expand changing DOS line
>endings to Unix line endings" sent "Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:27:55
>-0800" when it came back from the list. I'm not going to post the
>headers here because the senior people on this list flame anyone who
>publicly posts e-mail addresses, so take a look at the headers in your
>mailer. I think the problem is that the "From" field shows my address
>and/or that there is no "Reply-To" address going to the mailing list
>(?). I assume this is to reduce the amount of spam sent to the list
>(?). There is a "Mail-Followup-To" pointing to the list address, but I
>guess my mailer doesn't use that (?).
Yes, not all (many?) email clients pay attention to the "Mail-Followup-To".
Anyway, see my comment above about "Reply-To".
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