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



Harvey, you 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.
 >
 > > 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.

Or vice versa, some people instead of crying "PLEASE DO NOT CC
ME...." can just set there Reply-To to point to the mailling list.

thks,
borik
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