On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:57:04PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Joshua Rodman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:43:03PM +0200, demerphq wrote:

> > > I have to admit that I haven't felt sufficiently hate-inclined to
> > > research whether the hate should be focused at Nicholas, his email
> > > client, or mine (and yours). Instead I decided I would assume it must
> > > be the software and charitably assume that Nicholas has not
> > > mis-configured things.
> > 
> > It confuses my mail agent as well, and we are using the same agent,
> > Mutt.  Certainly the From: and Sender: are set differently, but I don't
> > see why this should make Reply All send to neither.  RFC2822 seems
> > clear:
> > 
> > " In the absence of the "Reply-To:" field, replies SHOULD by default be
> >   sent to the mailbox(es) specified in the "From:" field unless
> >   otherwise specified by the person composing the reply. "
> > 
> > I'm going to assume all our mail clients are stupid.
> 
> 
> I use mutt as well, and regardless of wether I hit 'r' (reply), or 
> 'g' (group-reply), no mail is send to myself. The former composes
> a mail to Nicholas directly, the latter a mail to all the addresses
> listed in the 'Mail-Followup-To' header. 
> 
> Perhaps my mutt is old enough to not cause a problem.

Abigail's mutt: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
Joshua's mutt:  User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Clearly one is older than the other :-)

My mutt:        User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i


I'm suspecting that the hate should be directed at software, not me :-)

Nicholas Clark

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