On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:17:41PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, April 1 at 04:14 PM, quoth David Champion: > >The point of Reply-To: is that some people prefer to think of From: as > >"this address originated the message", rather than as "I would like > >to receive replies at this address," D.J.Bernstein's dubious authority > >notwithstanding. > > True, however my original advice stands. There is no point to having > both From and Reply-To headers that are identical. Not entirely correct. If the sender is concerned about the possibility that some MTA will re-write the from header, using reply-to is very much appropriate. If, for example, the sender sends mail from the same machine, occasionally connected to two different ISPs (or VPN'd into their company, or whatever), this could be a factor. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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