Friday, January 21, 2000, 2:55:06 PM, Tom wrote:
> I finally got it. Perhaps The Bat! only prepends the name when there
> is no non-email-address name? Would it be fixed if the Reply-To was
> set to "TBUDL <tbudl@...>"? Dunno, but maybe this is what The Bat!
> originally intended to do; put a proper name when the reply to might
> be something different, as could probably be assumed if this were the
> case (delete the caret, needed by mail protocol as we all now know):
> From: Tom Plunket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Now I may or may not be the receiver of that address, but maybe TB!
> sees the lack of a proper name and for some reason can't live without
> it, so it inserts whatever it wants?
Exactly. This is a bug that some people call a feature. That is because
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is not me, you, Alex, Allie or anyone else on the
list. Associating that address with the name in the FROM field is wrong. It
causes confusing, it is frowned upon as header munging, etc.
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