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Re: sendmail : reply-to : why do you need it ?



"Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> writes:

> On 29 Jan 1998, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> 
> > "Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> writes:
> > 
> > > Off topic: Why on earth do you need the Reply-To: field is From: is
> > > specified ?! The only reason to use this, is when someone sends mail as
> > > guest from another account and wants the answers at home. Setting both
> > > fields the same might confuse some mailer or filter, causing duplicate
> > > messages or such.
> > 
> > Such a mailer or filter is broken.
> 
> Yes. Shouldn't one foresee and prevent problems ?

Why not just remove all programs and source code and have no problems
whatsoever?

> > > Is there something I have missed ?
> > 
> > Yes.  So that the message can, for example, be from a mailing list
> > for which replies go back to the author, not to the mailing list.
> 
> It was in front of my eyes and I had not seen it. It must be the SMD work
> I do.
> 
> Anyway, the H headers are not documented in the docs that come with
> sendmail packages on Linux. (for the exact version, look at my mail
> header).

RTFM - the email RFCs, not the sendmail documentation.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il