Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-28 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare wrote, on 14 Sep 2020: > > Mark Harris wrote, on 12 Sep 2020: > > > > > | Solaris uses "Reply-To:" to replace just "From:" > > > | (although it has "R" and "r" the wrong way round!) > > > > This is controlled by the POSIX-standard mailx variable "flipr". It > > can be set

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-15 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Hello. This was vivious, it ends up as Cc: The, POSIX, maintainers:, ;, Robert Elz upon reply time here. That is what happens if you join and split and join and split from strings to (address) objects and way back, loosing all the information along the way. It also came in as an empty

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-15 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:37:31 +0200 From:Steffen Nurpmeso Message-ID: <20200915133731.cpghp%stef...@sdaoden.eu> Quoting RFC822: | the presence of the "Reply-to" field SUPERSEDES the sending | of a reply to the person named in the "From" field. I suspect

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-15 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Robert Elz wrote in <21450.1600163...@jinx.noi.kre.to>: |Date:Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:09:21 +0200 |From:"Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group" \ | |Message-ID: <20200914210921.h1m8r%stef...@sdaoden.eu> | || This is of course very primitive

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-15 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:09:21 +0200 From:"Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: <20200914210921.h1m8r%stef...@sdaoden.eu> | This is of course very primitive handling and does not take care | for RFC 2822, no Sender: handling, etc.

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-14 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare wrote in <20200914090031.GB11999@localhost>: |Robert Elz wrote, on 12 Sep 2020: |> |> How you can manage to reconcile this in the standard, more precisely |> that saying "the r and R commands reply to the current message, using |> different, but otherwise unspecified, addresses

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-14 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Mark Harris wrote, on 12 Sep 2020: > > > | Solaris uses "Reply-To:" to replace just "From:" > > | (although it has "R" and "r" the wrong way round!) > > This is controlled by the POSIX-standard mailx variable "flipr". It > can be set system-wide (/etc/mail.rc) or per-user ($HOME/.mailrc).

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-12 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:30:22 +0200 From:Steffen Nurpmeso Message-ID: <20200912173022.shnqc%stef...@sdaoden.eu> | I do not know how you can say this. (If it last your original | address entirely, where is the improvement?) It is at least now directing replies

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-12 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote in <12525.1599844...@jinx.noi.kre.to>: |Date:Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:59:26 +0100 |From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" \ | |Message-ID: <20200911145926.GA7856@localhost> ... || rfc2822

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-12 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote in <20200911145926.GA7856@localhost>: |Although Andrew asked us to take this to the offtopic list, I would |like instead to bring it back on topic, by making it about mailx. | |The descriptions of the "R" and "r" commands in mailx say

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-12 Thread Mark Harris via austin-group-l at The Open Group
> | Solaris uses "Reply-To:" to replace just "From:" > | (although it has "R" and "r" the wrong way round!) > > The original BSD "Mail" did it that way, I have no idea when they > swapped cases, that is 'r' was a "small" reply, and "R" a "big" reply... > > But almost everyone uses "big"

Re: mailx R and r commands (was: Replying to the list)

2020-09-11 Thread Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Date:Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:59:26 +0100 From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group" Message-ID: <20200911145926.GA7856@localhost> | Although Andrew asked us to take this to the offtopic list, I would | like instead to bring it back on topic, by making