On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:52:10AM -0700, Joshua Rodman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:43:03PM +0200, demerphq wrote: > > 2009/8/19 Yosef Kreinin <[email protected]>: > > > PS Sort of on topic, the brain-crippled bird of thunder omitted your > > > address > > > from the To: list when I hit its Reply button, and to compensate me for > > > it, > > > it listed me instead. I've never seen this before and it didn't reproduce > > > with other messages I tried; perhaps it was baffled by the Sender: header > > > (yeah, that makes sense - you don't reply to the sender, you reply to the > > > receiver). > > > > Nicholas has configured his hateful email client to behave even more > > hatefully than normal email clients (which are /by definition/ > > *always* hateful). It makes gmail do the same silly thing, and I have > > to admit I derive a certain amount of pleasure to learn that it also > > affects thunder-hate as well. Its so nice to know that Nicholas is > > screwing other peoples mails and not just mine. > > > > I have to admit that I haven't felt sufficiently hate-inclined to > > research whether the hate should be focused at Nicholas, his email > > client, or mine (and yours). Instead I decided I would assume it must > > be the software and charitably assume that Nicholas has not > > mis-configured things. > > It confuses my mail agent as well, and we are using the same agent, > Mutt. Certainly the From: and Sender: are set differently, but I don't > see why this should make Reply All send to neither. RFC2822 seems > clear: > > " In the absence of the "Reply-To:" field, replies SHOULD by default be > sent to the mailbox(es) specified in the "From:" field unless > otherwise specified by the person composing the reply. " > > I'm going to assume all our mail clients are stupid.
I use mutt as well, and regardless of wether I hit 'r' (reply), or 'g' (group-reply), no mail is send to myself. The former composes a mail to Nicholas directly, the latter a mail to all the addresses listed in the 'Mail-Followup-To' header. Perhaps my mutt is old enough to not cause a problem. Abigail
