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From: Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: ms outlook replyers
Date: 12 Dec 2000 21:11:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87snntax3y.church.of.emacs@meta.verbum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37l55pcri.fsf@wash-473.res.umass.edu>

Nick Papadonis <nick@coelacanth.com> writes:

> Anyone have trouble with people using MS Outlook replying to your
> emails?
> 
> For some reason (even though I have user-mail-address,
> user-host-address set) when they reply, it uses my local machines
> hostname and username.  This is incorrect.
> 
> Anyway to fix this, or am I doing something wrong?

Yes, some applications use the Sender: address as the Reply-to field.
I believe this was discussed previously on this list.  I think what it
came down to is that there is no consensus on what the Sender: field
is really for.  

I eventually just changed mine to be my email address.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-13  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-12 21:09 Nick Papadonis
2000-12-12 22:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-12 22:25   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-13  6:41   ` Justin Sheehy
2000-12-13  8:36   ` Disable generation of "Sender: " by default Per Abrahamsen
2000-12-13 14:05     ` Jesper Harder
2000-12-14 14:18       ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-12-14 17:58         ` Jesper Harder
2000-12-15 12:35           ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-12-15 13:19             ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-15 15:47               ` Alan Shutko
2000-12-15 14:27             ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-17 12:29               ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 16:31                 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-17 19:33                   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 22:57                   ` Russ Allbery
2000-12-18 11:16                     ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-12-18 23:44                       ` Russ Allbery
2000-12-20 10:48                   ` Toby Speight
2000-12-20 20:05                     ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-14  8:05   ` ms outlook replyers Dirk Gomez
2000-12-14 13:33     ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-14 15:03       ` Alan Shutko
2000-12-14 20:19         ` Nick Papadonis
2000-12-14 21:24           ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-14 21:57             ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-15  5:48             ` Nick Papadonis
2000-12-15  9:34               ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-15 22:36                 ` Nick Papadonis
2000-12-15 22:57                   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-15 14:54           ` Paul Jarc
2000-12-13  2:11 ` Colin Walters [this message]
2000-12-13  5:07   ` Nick Papadonis
2000-12-13  4:47     ` Colin Walters
2000-12-13  8:49     ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-13  5:24   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-13  6:16     ` Colin Walters
2000-12-13 16:06       ` Stainless Steel Rat

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