[Dovecot] Reply-To header

Kenny Dail kend at amigo.net
Sat Feb 17 01:05:04 UTC 2007


> On Saturday 17 February 2007 00:13, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:33:40AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:16 -0600, Richard Laager wrote:
> > > > I see you've added a Reply-To header later. The canonical response in
> > > > this case is for someone to reference:
> > > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> >
> > A canonical response to that is
> >
> >    http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml
> 
> My mind was not changed, sorry. First, RFC 822 is obsolete, and RFC 2822 does 
> not contain the quoted paragraph. Instead it says that '[w]hen 
> the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the 
> author of the message suggests that replies be sent.' - the author, not the 
> mailing list software. There are other fields for that. 

Fortunately Dovecot's set-up, does make it the author's choice.
-- 
Kenny Dail <kend at amigo.net>



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