Mike Meyer wrote: > 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.
Ah yes, I see. I guess I could have thought about that sort of cases myself. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
