Re: Mail-{Followup,Reply}-To

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> > AFAICS, the code does not know about Mail-Followup-To.
> 
> Should it?  

Yes.  If I set Mail-Followup-To, it means I want people to obey it.
E.g., if you followup to this message, I don't want a separate copy.
(If you send one anyway, it'll bounce, with message directing to a web
page about Mail-Followup-To.)

> I don't think it would be hard to teach message.el to obey the two
> headers.

I'll try to give it a go.

> It could also generate the two headers based on group parameters.
> If "broken-reply-to" is set, generate "mail-reply-to".

Mail-Reply-To instead of Reply-To, you mean?

> If "to-list" or "to-address" is set, generate "mail-followup-to".
> The last should probably be controlled by a separate flag though.

Definitely a separate flag.  You don't necessarily need to set
Mail-Followup-To *from Gnus* at all.  I have:
(setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-qmail) so
mail messages are submitted to the qmail-inject program, which can
insert Mail-Followup-To fields when they aren't already present.


paul