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



"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.

> 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.

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