[Dovecot] Reply-To header

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Saturday 17 February 2007 02:05, Kenny Dail wrote:
> > 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 First, RFC 822 is obsolete, and RFC 2822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.

Ah. I've read the thread too sloppily. That's pretty OK, except that it's too 
cumbersome to change if you for some reason should want to request off-list 
replies. Being a hack it would be even better if it were the *recipient's* 
choice, so that those with broken mailers don't have to use Reply to All, 
while those with good mailers can more easily reply to the author when they 
want to.

Again, due to Kmail's particular un-brokenness, the Reply-To munging doesn't 
affect me, but I'd still prefer if all mailers were fixed.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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