Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:28 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: > > >> I sympathise, but this may not be entirely the person sending the replys >> fault, hitting reply on my copy of Thunderbird will send directly to the >> original sender not to the list itself. (I dunno if this case with other >> mail clients). A ReplyTo field should ideally be set to the list >> address, but this does get not set. (Coming to think about it I seem to >> remember TBird having a reply to mail-list option at one time). I find >> myself having to reply to all and edit the recipient out. Got caught out >> a couple of times early on with this 'feature'. >> > > evolution does the same, so I do the same editing. The list posts > contain: > > List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Owner: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But not all mailers know what to do with this. Do any mail readers use > these for reply purposes? If not, they are only using the From: field, > which makes sense. The Cc to the list must be from the To: field in the > message. I guess the list management software would have to put an > envelope around the message to change this behavior. > > > According to RFC 822 (4.4.3/4.4.4) the ReplyTo field is supposed to override the From field for the purposes of replying to a message. (Useful if you are sending from account a but want any replies directed to account b). I think the above Headers are non-standard so I would not expect all mail clients to support them (in fact my copy of TBird does not even report them).... but I am not certain... there is a RFC containing a description of non-standard headers not included in the standard header RFCs, cant remember number at moment...
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