ON Thursday, January 17, 2002, 1:45:26 PM, you wrote:

Dierk> Hello Gerard!

Dierk> On Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 1:10:11 PM you wrote:

>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>> and I press the reply button I get:
>> to:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Which wil reply to the right address but with a strange name attached.
>> Is this normal behavior? I would not have expected this.

Dierk> This looks wrong. If there is a Reply-To header which has a different
Dierk> address than the TO header it should be used and *not* the information
Dierk> in the TO header.

Dierk> BTW, there is no strange name appended, it is two addresses. Since
Dierk> they are, IMO, not correctly divided (by a comma or semicolon) you may
Dierk> be lucky in that only one is used.

It is a email address spelled as a name like:
"Dierk Haasis on tbudl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Strangely the FROM check box in the account reply template fixed this.


>> If a press reply to all I get:
>> to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>> Again, would you expect this.

Dierk> No, I won't, but I might be wrong here. AFAIUI, if there is a Reply-To
Dierk> header with a different address only that one should be used. That
Dierk> makes much more sense than one would see at first. Just think of an
Dierk> auto-responder to which you *can* reply, only not to it's own address
Dierk> but another one. Which would have been put into the Reply-To header.

Dierk> Regardless of what the RFC's may state - I am not a programmer, so
Dierk> don't know them by heart - the behaviour I described above seems to me
Dierk> the only sensible one. If the user wants something else he will have
Dierk> to use "his hands".

Dierk, same here. I am not a programmer but I have certain expectations
of what the program should do.
Who reads the RFC anyway :^)

-- 
Best regards,
 Gerard  

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Windows 2000 Professional with TB Version 1.53t 



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