* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-05 02:35]: > The overwhelming majority of users prefer mailing list replies > to go back to the mailing list *only*.
Reply-To munging is still harmful, because if the original sender had set this header, that information is lost; if someone really wants to send to mail to the sender instead of the list, after going through the contortions necessary, they will end up sending it to the sender’s From address, ie. the wrong one. So it goes. Rather, mailing list software should be setting Mail-Followup-To. Unfortunately there are a lot of broken clients out there which don’t have any clue about that one whatsoever. I believe the fine Microsoft products are among them, though I could be mistaken. So this Reply-To meddling persists. So it goes. Anyway, there are mail clients which largely work sanely despite adversity – read: mutt. Once told that a particular address is a mailing list, mutt will plainly ignore a munged Reply-To when doing a regular reply, offering instead a separate list-reply function which will send the reply to the list *only*, regardless of how the mailing list software is configured, and will also set Mail-Followup-To in the right circumstances. What mutt can’t do, of course, is recover the original value of a Reply-To header mangled by officious mailing list software. So it goes. (It’s kind of ludicrous, if you think about it, that most mail clients have not even the most basic dedicated support for mailing lists, nearly half a century after the birth of SMTP.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
