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Re: setting reply-to header for mailing list



William Yardley <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:07:01AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Eugeny N Dzhurinsky <eugenydzh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Is it possible to automatically add reply-to header with address of
> > > mailing list when posting message to the mailing list?
> > 
> > That's not what Reply-To: is for.  It is, however, what the
> > Mail-Followup-To: header is for.
> 
> That's debatable.... M-F-T was never adopted as an official standard and is
> implemented by only a few MUAs (and not by any popular ones).  Reply-To will
> work for this purpose, and will be honored by more mailers.

For a very small definition of "work".  If mutt was about going along with
whatever other MUAs did no matter how broken, it would by now be a GUI-less
version of Outhouse Express.

Reply-To: governs private replies; Mail-Followup-To: governs followups ("list
replies").  Trying to make the first do the job of the second means /none/ of
this works, anywhere.

Charles
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