Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/05/15/14:56:00
Stephen --
>> It is *not* legal to rewrite the headers in the fashion suggested.
>> According to RFC822, the Reply-To: header is for the use of the
>> *sender*, to redirect replies in case she is using a different
>> account, is moving, is having mail problems, or any of a thousand
>> other possibilities.
I'm sorry: you are either working from an entirely different version
of RFC-822 to that to be found on the net, or you are being _very_
selective in your reading. Let me quote exact chapter and verse
of the relevant section of the text:
4.4.3. REPLY-TO / RESENT-REPLY-TO
This field provides a general mechanism for indicating any
mailbox(es) to which responses are to be sent. Three typical
uses for this feature can be distinguished. [...] A
somewhat different use may be of some help to "text message
teleconferencing" groups equipped with automatic distribution
services: include the address of that service in the "Reply-
To" field of all messages submitted to the teleconference;
then participants can "reply" to conference submissions to
guarantee the correct distribution of any submission of their
own.
This is exactly the use to which I was suggesting it properly be put.
Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
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