On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:30:03 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>On Feb 19 1999, Rok Papez wrote:
>> The mailing list sets the Reply-To: address to the mailing list, the
>> From: field is preserved. When I hit the Reply buttin in PMMail
>> (MUA), he notices the difference between the "From:" and "Reply-To:"
>> list, pops up a quick dialog asking me to choose to whom to reply;
>> to the list (Reply-To) or to the poster (From:). Voila.. problem
>> solved.
>
>       No. IMO, it's not as easy as you want to make it, because
>this is a misuse of the Reply-To field. As far as I know, messages
>compliant with the RFCs can't have two Reply-To fields (which one
>would the MUA choose, anyway?).

Who is talking about two "Reply-To:" fields ????
There is only one, the one that mailin lists creates or the 
original-one that is preserved by the mailing list.
Please read the post carefuly before replying; and if I wasn't
clear enough ask me to clearify it.

I'll write it again:
If I post to the mailing list *without* "Reply-To:" field mailinglist
creates one that points to itself, the "From:" field points to the
original author of the post.
If I post *with* "Reply-To:" field already set, then mailinglist does
*not* add a "Reply-To:" field.

This way it is solved.
If I wasn't subscribed to the mailinglist, I could set the "Reply-To:"
field to my personal mailbox and everyone will be replying to me, not
the mailing list.

>       What happens is that I have three mailing lists where the
>users have requested me to set the Reply-To field pointing back to the
>list. To accomplish that, I had to add Reply-To to headerremove and to
>headeradd (I'm using ezmlm to manage the lists).

You don't set it.. mailing list software sets it.

>damn Reply-To field myself upon request of my users. Are there any
>ports of Mutt to the Windows world so that I can recommend that for my
>users?

Mutt is very unintuitive (PINE *is* intuitive), I tried it, didn't
like it. I wish that PINE had as many features as mutt has, tho.
I prefer PINE and PMMail over anything else.


best regards,
Rok Papez,
Student at Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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