On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:13:24 +0000 Came this utterance fomulated by Brian Barker to my mailbox:
> At 14:04 08/02/2009 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >I often see some list members CC or forward replies to unsubscribed > >OPs. Can the list be changed so that if someone unsubscribed posts > >to the list, their address is added to the Reply-To header? > > The problem is actually the reverse of this: the list adds a > Reply-To: header to itself, but it has no business doing so. This is > forsworn by RFC 2822, which says 'When the "Reply-To:" field is > present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the *author* of the > message suggests that replies be sent" (my emphasis). > The list itself can be seen as the author of any email sent out to anyone on this list. I'd rather my MUA handled the reply's as i set it up to. I filter "moderated" emails to a seperate folder, then reply to all on that folder. Alas my MUA will not automatically reply to all on my behalf. > It is the author's choice to suggest where his or her replies are > addressed: that should be the only function of the Reply-To: header > (and few authors would need to include one). It is the privilege of > anyone choosing to reply to decide where to send his or her > reply. If the list did not add its own Reply-To: header, simply > using "reply to all" (or whatever) in a mail client would include the > author of the original message (and solve the problem). As it is, > this header suppresses the effects of both the From: address and any > Reply-To: address included by the author: that's the real problem. > My "Reply all" works as you describe here - no issues. It sounds MUA dependant. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
