On 2017-01-22 15:16:07 -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Ticket #3909 described a problem where an email's reply-to "personal" > part has significance to the processor of the response. > > Right now, when the mailbox of the reply-to is the same as the from > address, mutt uses the from address.
If I understand correctly, the only difference is in the comment part. > Ordinarily, I would think this was an oversight, and just change the > behavior. However, in this case the change was explicitly made and > documented in changeset https://dev.mutt.org/trac/changeset/b531787fd261 > > I sent an initial email to the other committers to see if they could > think why this would be, but perhaps the broader audience on mutt-dev > may have some ideas. Can anyone think what the reason might be for > preferring the From address in the case? I think that a possible reason is to get more meaningful content when a user puts Reply-To to his own address but without a comment, e.g. From: Firstname Lastname <user@domain> Reply-To: user@domain So, "To: Firstname Lastname <user@domain>" is generated instead of just "To: user@domain". If this is the real reason, this may be a good feature, but I think that it would be preferable to do this only if the Reply-To header had only an e-mail address, without a comment. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
