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Re: [patch] Re: Reply-To header problem



On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:57:09AM EST, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:17:07PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > Re: Andrew Pimlott in <20040121132656.GS21327@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> > > Why can't it look at Delivered-To, if that is semi-standard?  It
> > > would make mutt act more intuitively for many users.  Would a patch
> > > to recognize Delivered-To (and perhaps others) if there is no match
> > > in To or Cc be accepted?
> > 
> > To properly serve it's purpose, $alternates must only look at To and Cc
> > to recognize mail directed to you. If it would recognize every mail you
> > get, it would be useless.
> > 
> > It might be good in the context of $reverse_name to look at other
> > headers, but that would probably require many changes to the mutt code.
> 
> I agree that reverse_name is the only place this header would be
> consulted.  (Even then it may not be perfect, as another poster
> explained, but if there is no match in To or Cc, it's the best we've
> got.)  It's too bad it wouldn't be a simple change, but I may work
> on it anyway.
> 
> > Just use send-hooks to set your From: address for mailing lists, this
> > works.
> 
> The case I'm more interested in is when I generate a unique address
> for a company that wants to email me.  Sometime they send mail with
> software that suppresses To and Cc, but I still want to reply with
> my unique address.  There's no reliable way to do this with a
> send-hook, because companies often use other domains for their
> email.  Using Delivered-To fits the bill perfectly in my mail
> configuration.

For your particular case, it's probably easier to just tell procmail
to rename the "To:" header to "Old-To:" or something, and rename your
"Delivered-To:" header to "To:" :-)

 - Dave

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