Re: Checking `Reply-To'

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> tGBGnB> You can use `message-default-headers', but why on Earth do you want
> tGBGnB> to add a Reply-to header?
> 
> Read RFC-822 some time :).  There are plenty of good reasons to generate a
> Reply-To header.  The gist of it is that one uses a Reply-To header when
> the sender wishes to direct replies to a mailbox other than the one in the
> - From header.

Yes -- but that's only useful in very limited circumstances.  The user
wanted to add a Reply-To header that he seemed to want to have the
same contents as his From header.  Many people misunderstand the
meaning of From/Reply-To, and seem to think that if there is no
Reply-To in the mails, then people will be unable to reply to the
mail.

Most people don't need to use Reply-To, and those who do don't need to
ask about it.  :-)

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen