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Stefan Waldherr <swa@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> I composed a message today and inserted the `Reply-to' tag using the
> menu. I typed `nobody@localhost' but when I received the message
> from the mailinglist, it says `Reply-To:
> nobody@LOCALHOST.cs.cmu.edu'. Any way to prevent this from
> happening?

Yes.  Do not set the Reply-To: header to `nobody@localhost'.

It is incorrect, there is no good reason to do so, and it is rather
unfriendly behavior.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

In a cloud bones of steel.