From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Checking `Reply-To'
Date: 10 Mar 1997 06:21:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2g1y4jp90.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 09 Mar 1997 17:59:16 -0500
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. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-03-10 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-22 2:47 Hrvoje Niksic
1997-02-23 2:57 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-02-23 5:06 ` Steven L Baur
1997-02-28 23:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-03-01 6:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-03-09 15:38 ` Nathan O. Siemers
1997-03-09 17:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-03-09 22:59 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-10 5:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-03-10 23:38 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-11 2:35 ` François Pinard
1997-03-11 14:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-03-11 17:01 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-11 17:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-03-11 22:39 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-12 1:05 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-03-12 17:47 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-03-12 19:56 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-03-11 18:46 ` Sten Drescher
1997-03-11 22:53 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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