Hello,
Replying to an old email but I don't think there was an answer provided
(one that addressed the question, anyway).
Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Fri, 07 Apr 2000:
here is the mail i wish to reply to :
[relevant headers included here]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Darren Wyn Rees" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using the above email ("mutt -f email") :
when i type 'r', the reply is directed towards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
when i type 'g', the reply is _only_ directed
towards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm guessing here -- without knowing full details about your setup --
that this happens because Mutt sees that the email's From address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which presumably you've got in your $alternates.
So Mutt looks at the email, notices that the From address matches
your $alternates, therefore determines that the message is FROM YOU.
Mutt has a special case for replying to emails which are sent by you,
replies to such emails are directed to the *recipient*, not the sender.
The Reply-To header indicates where replies to the sender should be
sent, so in this case Mutt ignores that header.
(Although it might be argued that the Reply-To address should only be
ignored if it matches $alternates too... I'm not sure.)
This feature is very useful actually, you can go to your sent folder for
example and use the reply function to send a further email to the
original recipients of a message that you've sent earlier.
however, when i CHANGE - for the sake of argument -
the 'From:' header (anything but [EMAIL PROTECTED]),
it seems to work as per normal.
Right, when you change the From header then Mutt doesn't think that the
message is from you anymore, and does a normal reply.
so what is happening ? is there something in .muttrc
causing the above ?
Yes probably, the $alternates setting and whatever settings you have for
creating the From address. :-)
Hopefully this explains the issue,
Mikko
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