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



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 ?

> > 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).

What is the most recent date on the file od.ps in your
/usr/src/sendmail/od directory ? (Please ls -l and post to the list). I
have tried to determine this from sendmail.org but I could not. 

Peter