On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mar 10, 2011, at 7:48 PM, LuKreme wrote: > >> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html >>> When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to >>> which the author of the message suggests that replies be sent. >>> >>> Your list software is not "the author of the message", so it must not set >>> or in any way meddle with the Reply-To header field. That field exists for >>> the author and the author alone. If your list munges it, you are violating >>> the standard. >> >> This is interpretation is not cut and dried, by any means, and RFC2822 has >> very little to say about mailing lists in general. > > I think it is very clear in RFC 2822 3.6.2 which says: > When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it > indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests > that replies be sent. > > *the author* is he who wrote the email, not the listserve forwarding this > email.
It could easily be argued that the listserve becomes the author when it sends out the mail. It is not just a forwarding service, but is taking original content, perhaps changing formatting, stripping out attachments, making a digest, etc and then making a new post. It may pass itself as the new sender or may pass the original sender as the sender, but in the context of the RFC you quoted, the list software could easily be the "author" of the message. The RFC you quoted is not speaking of posts to mail lists, frankly. That is out of the realm of what it is trying to say. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
