Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Decker wrote: >> Setting the default Reply-To: to the list means that 'Reply' sends >> just to the list (the desired behavior most of the time), and 'Reply >> to all' sends 2 copies. > The thing is: Reply-to has legitimate uses. I don't really understand > the use cases (AFAICS all of them could be done with Form: instead)
Yes, they can all be done with From:. But From: has uses other than just listing the reply address, and if you hijack From: to replace reply-to (because other people have hijacked Reply-To: for purposes for which it wasn't intended :-), then you can't use From: for what *it* was intended for. I send out mail - well, mail gets sent out for me - every day that uses both the From: and Reply-To: fields. The mail is *from* me, and that's what the from header says. The reply needs to go to a magic maildrop that takes action based on the reply address. The recipient doesn't need to see the reply address, and would only be confused by it if they did. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list