> > A quick question: How come the mailing list software
> > doesn't add a reply-to header? Is this intentional to
> > keep replies off the mysql list, and if so why?
I just finished writing a mail list system, so I'll give this a shot.
When the mail list software gets a message in, he has to send it back out to everybody
on the list. There are two ways of doing this:
1. Send a single mail to each person.
2. Send one mail through SMTP with a long list of recipients.
The latter is much easier for many reasons. As such, everybody gets pretty much the
same headers. That means that we all see:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But no 'Reply-to:'
When we hit 'Reply' in our mail client, we get:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When we hit 'Reply To All' in mail client (depending on the client), he takes names
from the 'To:', 'From:', 'CC:' and 'Reply-to:' headers. So we'd get:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's just what we want.
If the headers ~did~ include a 'Reply-to:' and looked like this:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
then hitting 'Reply To All' would give us:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does this help?
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Rodney Broom
Programmer: Desert.Net
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